Boxoffice-September.10.1979

$1.00 BOXOFFICE/SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
The Business Weekly for Motion Picture Exhibition Published by Vance Publishing Corporation/Vol. 1 15, No. 24
Lick kids
Franny Philips (Trini Alvarado) enjoys an ice cream cone with her new classmate, Jamie (Jeremy Levy), in 'Rich Kids,' a
United Artists release. See review on page 18.
Plagiarism suit
filed against AI,
'Bite' producers
NEW YORK— In a suit filed Aug. 31 in New York
Supreme Court, independent exhibitor and producer Robert
Roberts is charging plagiarism and breach of contract concern
ing American International's "Love at First Bite." released
earlier this year.
The suit names executive producer and "First Bite" star
George Hamilton, as well as executive producer Robert Kauf
man. Melvin Simon and American International Pictures in
the $6U million action.
According to Roberts, he brought the original story and
screenplay to American International in 1 977. The story, written
by Roberts, was titled "Rockula" and contained identical
elements that Roberts contends later turned up on the screen
in "Love at First Bite."
ROBERTS SAID the story that Al representatives looked
at even had one of the characters say the words "love at
first
bite." Roberts told BoxomcE that his script was held by Al
for several months, and was then returned to him as rejected
material.
Montreal festival gets mixed reviews r
By JIM ROBBINS
East Coast Editor
MONTREAL—Opinions about the World
Film Festival and International Film Market
have varied from optimism to denunciation.
The sentiment during the opening lour days
was that the third annual event benefits the
movie industry internationally as well as
locally — unless one asks many of the critics
who found the films subpar al best or the
i leftist Quebec filmmakers who picketed the
Opening-night ceremonies Aug. 31.
HIE FESTIVAL, which features more
than 7U films from nearly 30 countries (in
eluding the premiere of two feature films from
I C hinai began ui the Place des Arts with the in
traduction of the seven member jury and brief
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welcoming remarks by Claude Charron.
I Quebec cabinet minister, and Serge Losique.
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festival director.
As Losique talked about how the testis al
"will play a great role in the film world." two
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bearded demonstrators unfurled a long banner
that read.'Tmperilalisme Culture!." Some spectators
shouted in French. "Get out!" and
"Enough!" Alter a few minutes, the
demonstrators rolled up their sign and left
peacefully.
EARLIER, WHILE the guests filed into
the hall, about 30 protestors carried signs and
distributed handbills, also in French, charging
that the festival did not represent their
interests because it pursued the "jet set" commercialization
of Cannes and Hollywood.
They identified themselves as "angry young
filmmakers." There were no violent confrontations,
however.
Later. Michael McCabe. executive director
ui the Canadian Film Development Corp..
described the group as "people who have not
been able to cut it in the newly developing
industry They want to go on making films
about relatively narrow and parochial sub
jecls. a form of cultural elitism I don't find
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very attractive.
A QUIETER FLAP developed over the
absence of women on the jury, which includes
as president. Italian director Sergio Leone,
who made a fortune from the Clint Eastwood
"spaghetti Westerns," American film critic
and historian Arthur Knight. Canadian director
Ted Kotcheff ("North Dallas Forty"),
French director Rene Clement. German direc
tor Bernard Wicki. and Canadian writer
director Gragien Gelinas.
h was reported that actresses Marlhe Keller
and Genevieve Bujold were sought lor the
jury but declined because they were unable to
devote the time needed.
The selection of "Ogin. Her Love and
Roberts said he was shocked when an exhibitor friend called
him a few months ago and told him that the "Love at First
Bite" screening he attended was the same story that Roberts
had written. When he saw the movie, he knew that his
material had been plagiarized. Roberts said.
AS THE PRESIDENT OF the National Independent
Theatre Exhibitors of New Jersey. Roberts also owns four
screens in New Jersey. He says that "studios should be held
accountable for their actions" and that this suit is intended to
do just that.
(see MONTREAL on pane 2)
inside
(see SUIT on page 3)
Industry briefs 2
"\
Titles & takes 3
Up front 4
Hollywood report 6
Canadian news 7
Midwest news 7,9
Southern news 10
Western news 11
Eastern news 14, 16-17
Feature reviews 18
Feature chart 19,21,23
Review digest 20
TAC retains national lobbyist
LOS ANGELES — Motion picture
exhibitors across the country will benefit at
least indirectly by the decision of the Theatre
Association of California to retain a legislative
lobbying operation on a limited basis in
Washington.
TAC president Bruce Corwin said the
organization had asked Braun Campaigns Inc
to keep an eye on federal legislation in
Washington as well as developments in
California's state capital at Sacramento.
BRAUN HAD BEEN fired in July by
NATO as lobbyist, primarily concerned with
federal legislation in the area of the minimum
wage law. That move had prompted Corwin
to resign from NATO's executive committee
in protest, although he retained his membership
in NATO, as well as continuing member
ship of Metropolitan Theatres, which he
heads.
At that time Corwin said he would ask to
examine the feasibility of going it alone with
some form of lobbyist activity in the nation's
(see LOBBY on page 2)

20th-Fox pulls 'Health'
from Christmas release
HOLLYWOOD— 20ih Century-Fox has
pulled Roberi Allman's "Health" oil lis
C 'hnsinicis release schedule, apparently considering
u 1101 healthy enough to buck such
Yuletide entries as "The Black Hole." "Star
Irek— Hie Motion Picture. "The Electric
Horseman" and "Kramer vs. Kramer"
"Health" had been booked into 500
theatres. Now the film lias been rescheduled
lor a March 8 release in a limited pattern.
which reportedly had been favored by Allinan
originally. "Health" will go out in about 30
theatres in New York. Los Angeles and
Miami— all location sites lor the Feature star
ring Carol Burnett. Lauren Becall. Cilenda
Jackson and James Garner. A wider playoff
across the country will begin in April, accord
ing to PCICf M>ers. head ol domestic distnbu
lion
Myers said the decision to pull "Health"
was influenced by qualms about the picture's
ability to capture media coverage at a time
when the heavy artillery from Columbia.
Disney. Warner Bros and Paramount goes
out.
lox will have Bene Midler's "The Rose"
and Bob Losses "All I hat Jazz" in release for
Christmas.
Sho WesT 80 committee named
Ihe general committee oi ShoWesT 80.
scheduled lor Feb. I I 1 4 at the MGM Grand
Hotel in Las Vegas, has been named by the
convention's executive chairman Bruce C.
Corwin. Al Lapidus and Spero L. Kontos.
Composed ol a wide sprinkling of representation
from the exhibition, concession and
equipment arms ol the industry, committee
members for the 1 980 edition of the annual
event Include: Ralph Balschelet. Denver;
Roberi Bond. Seattle; James Bradley. Los
Angeles; John Burlinson. Toledo. Ohio; Dixie
and Herbert Burton. San Diego. Harold Nor
man Chester, Salt Lake City; Glenn Coffey.
San Francisco; Adelaide Cooper. San Fran
cisco; William L. Cooper. Los Angeles: Jill
Cowan. Los Angeles; Tad Danz. Los Angeles;
Dane Denick. Los Angeles; John Dobbs. San
Francisco: Ewart tdwards. Tucson. Ariz.:
James Ldwards. Newport Beach
ROY EVANS, LOS ANGELES; Sal H.
Fasulo. Los Angeles: Jerry Forman. Los
Angeles; James Gallagher. San Francisco:
Steve Gilula. Los Angeles; Elsie and Richard
Cioldsworty. Las Vegas: An Gordon.
Honolulu: Jerry Harrah. San Francisco; Don
na Howard. San Diego. Dean Hyskell. Los
Angeles; Donna Ireland. Los Angeles; Gloria
Kadish. Los Angeles; Edythe Katz. Las Vegas:
Lloyd Kaiz. Las Vegas. Chris Kontos. Glen
dale: Marina Kontos. Los Angeles; Way lie
Kullander. Twin Falls. Idaho: Helen Lake,
San Francisco.
JULKS LANFIELD, LOS ANGtLES;
Steve Lazar. Milpitas. Calif.. Irving Levin. San
Francisco; Larry Levin. San Francisco; Mor
ton Lippe. Los Angeles; Robert Lippert Jr..
San Francisco; Joe Linen. Los Angeles: Mr.
and Mrs. Stan Livingston. Los Angeles; president
of the National Association ol Conces
sionaires, Phillip M Lowe. Boston. Leonard
Lowengrub. Los Angeles: John Malone.
Phoenix. Barbara Mannheimer. San Francisco;
Neal Meyer. San Francisco.
JIM MELIKIAN. FRESNO, CALIF.;
John McKee. Portland. Ore.; Allan Michaan.
San Francisco; Ted Minsky. Los Angeles;
William Mitchell. Los Angeles; Larry Moyer.
Portland; Tom Moyer. Portland: Jack Mylnll.
San Francisco; Richard Naily . San Francisco.
Eraser Neal. Toronto; Virgil Odell. Caldwell.
Idaho: Mike Osterman, Los Angeles.
MICHAEL PADE, LOS ANGELES;
George Pearn. Seattle; Henry Plitt, Los
Angeles; Edward Plitt. Los Angeles; William
Rector. Los Angeles.
ROY ROPER, I WIN FALLS, IDAHO;
William Russo. San Diego; M. W. Saffle. Seat
tie: Jack Sawyers. Cedar City. Utah: Robert
Snyder. San Francisco; Carl Schaefer. Los
Angeles; Ida Schreiber. Los Angeles; Leonard
Schwartz. Los Angeles; Jess Sellers III. Los
Angeles; Art Silber. Los Angeles; T. Spadaro.
San Francisco; Shirley Stimmel. San Fran
Cisco: Jerry Sunshine. New York: Jerry Vitus.
Seattle; John Wilmers. Los Angeles; Charles
A. Winans. Chicago. Jack Wodell. San Fran
cisco: and Charles Wilk. Chicago.
General committee members will work
closely with the ShoWesT 80 executive council,
which, in addition to Corwin. Lapidus and
Kontos includes: Ross Campbell. Sheridan
Wyo.: Sherrill C. Corwin. Los Angeles;
Fredric A. Danz. Seattle; Nat D. Fellman. Los
Angeles; William F. Karlozian. chairman oi
the Theatre Association ol California. Walnut
Creek. Calif.. Robert W. Selig. live times
ShoWesT chairman or co-chairman. Los
Angeles; and B. V. Sturdivanl, president of the
Motion Picture Pioneers.
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Every Film,
STEREO
Every Show,
Every Day!
BOXOFFICE/SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
industry briefs
Publicity items offer discounts
In a special "Down With Inflation" campaign. National Screen Service is offering exhibitors
discounted rales on three special ad/publicity items during the last three months of
I979. I he special oiler, which will run lor the three month period beginning Oct. I and ending
Dec 31. is designed to appeal to economy -minded exhibitors Display Away, customdesigned
counter displays ior use in high traffic, away from the theatre locations to advise
patrons of current film attractions and attract them to the theatre, will be discounted by 10
percent Movie Ad Pads, available at 10 percent oil their original price, are designed to assist
a theatre in making a variety ol specific newspaper ads. "No smoking" trailers, offered at a
discount of 33'/i percent, will be available lor theatres that wish to advise patrons ol limited
or prohibited smoking within certain sections ol the theatre.
'Star Trek ' publications planned
Paramount Pictures and Pocket Books have joined forces in one of Ihe most comprehensive
publishing ventures ever undertaken ior a motion picture. The "Star Trek" Publishing
Program, as h will be called, begins this Tail with an extensive range of works focusing on the
forthcoming release of "Star Trek—The Motion Picture " Pocket Books has so far scheduled
I 7 books in conjunction with the Paramount film, including Gene Roddenhen-y s novel based
on the screenplay, picture books, trade size paperbacks, calendars, date books and novelty
items. The first "Star Trek" titles will be published in September as Wallaby trade paperbacks.
They are: "The Official U.SS Enterprise Officer's Date Book ior 1980. "The 1 980 Star Trek
Calendar" and "The Star Trek Make Your Own Costume Book." which was by Lynn
Ldelman Schnurnberger.
Filmack has Dolby datestrips
Filmack Studios Inc. in Chicago has announced the availability of 35mm and 70mm color
datestrips that inform patrons of Dolby -equipped theatres that the feature attraction will be
presented in Dolby stereo.
MONTREAL
(continued 1mm pace I)
Faith." as the inaugural film— the first time a
Japanese film has been so honored—was
criticized by some because of us length 1115
minutes), its subject matter and pace. Directed
by Ken Kue Kumai Iwho in the recent past
made a film nominated lor an Academy
Award as best foreign picture). "Ogin" deals in
picturesque but deliberative terms with 16th
century Japanese cultural values in the face of
Christianity. The cast included Toshiro
Miiune. the star of many samurai movies as
well as U.S. features such as "Midway" and
"Winter Kills."
THE INTERNATIONAL FILM Market
did not open until Sept. I. Considered a vital
part of ihe festival, the "Marche." as it is call
ed. featured 47 booths sponsored by
distributors and producers from 13 countries
Many Canadian tradesman maintained that
the contact between the Canadian distributors
and the rest ol the world afforded by the
market was. at least lor this year, more impor
tanl than the festival competition.
The quiet activity Sept. 1-3 at the market,
set up in a large conference room in the Hotel
Meridien (festival headquarters), was
attributed to the holiday weekend, the many
tradescreenings and parties, and the sugges
lion that some market participants had not
arrived the first day.
MICHAEL GOLDMAN, president of Los
Angeles based Manson International
(distributor of Crown International's "Van
Nuys Blvd." and "Human Experiment."
posters of which graced his company's boolhl
said the activity at the early part of the market
was in line with similar festival marketplaces.
"There has been a lot of talking." Goldman
said, "but most people will wait until the end
of the festival, after they have seen
everything, before they will do any buying."
Among ihe American distributors who
LOBBY
(continued from pace I
capital. The move. Corwin said at the time,
would in effect give exhibitors "a free ride" in
Washington because NATO had abandoned
representation there
TAC will pay Braun $5,000 for scaled-down
services—the same amount the California
group had donated toward Braun's $25,000
fee.
sponsored booths were: Alexander Beck/A. B.
Enterprises. Bauer International. Cinelex.
New World Pictures. Producers Sales
Organization. Serendipity Films, and Carolco.
w ith a booth adjacent to RSL. the noted Canadian
producers of "In Praise of Older
Women."
During the first four days of the festival, the
paying public attended the screenings at an
impressive rate, according to observers Held
at Le Parisien. a Famous Players circuit fivescreen
complex on St. Catherine Street, a five
minute walk from the hotel, the screening proceeds
through the first few days of the event
reportedly were double the amount taken in
last year. Admission was $4 per ticket or S40
for 15 tickets. The program included both
competing and noncompeting features as well
as short films.
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDED some
of the films that were screened during the early
stages of the festival. "The Onion Field."an
American entry directed by Harold Becker.
was delayed because a print was allegedly
locked m at the office of the Bureau of de Serviance.
C anada's censorship board, which was
recently hit by a strike. The film had been approved,
but the picket line could not be crossed
to retrieve the print. An identical print was
delivered, and the Avco Embassy picture was
rescheduled for later in the festival.
Stars and filmmakers who met the press
following ihe presentation of their films were
director Stanley Kramer C'The Runner
Stumbles"), Alan Alda and director Jerry
Schalzberg ("The Seduction of Joe Tynan").
and George Kennedy, who discussed his "Airport"
pictures and his role in "Death Ship." a
Canadian production.
CHARLES BRONSON, Elliott Gould.
Palti d'Urbanville. Jon Voighl, Marie France
Pisier and director Jacques Rivette were expected
to appear before the festival came to an
end. Gina Lollobrigida was to serve as host for
the closing ceremonies.
RETENTION OF BRAUN'S services may
also serve to emphasize Corwin's and TAC's
conviction (hat exhibition "needs representa
lion in Washington." he said. When he resigned
in July Corwin was especially critical of
NATO's decision to drop the lobbyist project,
insisting thai exhibition should follow the
example of the Motion Picture Producers
Association, which for years has been strongly
represented in Washington by us president.
Jack Valenli.

In
BOXOFFICE/SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
A Ida's battle for 'Tynan' paying off
By JIM KOBKINS
East Coast Editor
MONTREAL—Alan Akta foughl an uphill
battle to get his movie script onto the screen
The film written b> Alda. "The Seduction
Of Joe Tynan." look lour years to get to the
screen in part because the studios and ex
hihitors had no faith in it. according to Mda
AFTER THREE WEEKS ol ra\e reviews
and respectable grosses in U.S. theatres. "Joe
I \tian" premiered Sept I
in Canada at the
Montreal World Film Festival lAug. 30-Sepl
9) in (he noncompeting category. It goes into
general release in C anada on Sept 21
It look a long time for anyone to accept
Alda's story of. in his words, "a crisis m a per
son's private life set against the contemporary
political scene in Washington.
"It was noi easy to gel the studios in
terested," Alda explained to reporters at a
press conference held at the Hotel Mcridien.
Icstival headquarters, on Sept. I- "Theatre
owners were not forthcoming. Now they're
tailing all over themselves to get it," he said.
PRODUCER MARTIN BREGMAN
fScrpico. " "IXig Day Afternoon") said it "was
hard to get theatre owners to hu\ it I he) tell
it was a political film, thai there was no au
dience Universal was a big help in convincing
them." He said that "Joe Ivnan" was not ac
cepted until they got il out into an audience.
"We started from absolute scratch; that's
why we're in ecstasy," said Alda. who
repeatedly stressed that the political backdrop
Is just that and thai the story deals with the
problems of every person and his responsibili
ly to his family and to his career Dial's why
he pressed for the title change Irom "The
Senator." which he said implied "a senator do
ing senatorial things
IMF UNIVERSALITY ol
the rdrn's crises
impressed director Jerry Schat/herg. a former
fashion photographer who also directed
"Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow "
"1 was atlraeted to the screenplay because I
was associating myself with so many ol the
characters." he said "I haven't been able to
cope with the family problems like Alan has."
Said Alda. "I think one of the reasons why
so main people are going to sec the picture is
because it involves a decision thai has to he
made m every family We gel two messages
oui family comes first, and we must do
everything to become a success I hey are
mutually exclusive
ALDA, WHO SAID he was a lot belter off
in his private life than Joe I ynan, said he was
working on another screenplay a comedy He
will also write and direct the film "Four
Seasons." which Bregman will produce. He
said he would continue with
"M'A'S'H"— entering Hs eighth season on
television
as long as he and the other writers
continued to come up with good scripts
The press conference, which attracted a
large gathering of international print and
broadcast journalists, gave Alda the opportunity
to discuss a wide range of topics, in
eluding actress Jane Fonda. Ills six year cam
paign in favor of the Equal Rights Amend
nienl. motion picture violence and moviemak
ing in the 1930s, the era of his father, actor
Robert Alda
Alan Alda: "Theatre owners were not
forthcoming. Now they're falling all over
themselves to get il."
setting it
straight
A headline in the Modern Theatre section
of the Aug. 27 issue ol lioxoi l K l erroneously
reported that National ["heatre Supply, a divi
sion of National Screen Service Corp.. was
going out of business. NTS is in the process of
phasing out Us retail sales scry ice branches
throughout the country and plans to close its
10 branch offices. N IS will remain in business
as a manufacturing company, however,
designing and producing Simplex equipment
at ns Paramus. N.J., facility
Although ihe headline was inaccurate, the
information reported in ihe story was
correct.
We're moving
On Sept. 15 BoxottK t will fatale its 59-year site in northeast Kansas
City, Mo., to mo>e to a new office building in suburban <
Im I.
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Park, kan., a southern suburb of Kansas City. The new facility,
which will be shared with Vance Publishing C orp.'s Food and
Agricultural Division, is a one-story, 17,500 square-foot brick structure
situated on a 3.25-aere site. A special feature of Boxon- let's
titles & takes
Photo by Gil I'intar
new headquarters will be a "motion picture time capsule" containing
artifacts and media samples reflecting the growth and history of the
Aimed entertainment medium. I he time capsule will he sealed in concrete
at the time of the building's dedication in October and will not
be reopened until the \ear 2079. I he new address is 7950 College
Bhd., Overland Park, Kan. 66201.
After nine weeks. ROCKY II continues its
boxoffice pace with a gross of $53,274,195. il
was announced by Al Fitter. United Artists
senior vice president for domestic sales
Arista Films' SEVEN FROM HEAVEN
grossed S60.65 1 in the first three days of its
opening engagements in seven theatres in
Montreal.
Paramount's MEATBALLS hit a gross of
$30,634,000 in its sixth week playing 700
theatres across the country . its first week in
Chicago the film grossed S450.979 in 24
theatres. In New i ork. flagship and showcase
playdates have produced a gross of
S3.997.775. and in Los Angeles the gross has
hit SI. 199.415.
JAGUAR LIVES, to be distributed in the
United States by American International, has
grossed S60.000 in its initial engagements in
Bologna and Florence. Italy
ALIEN has grossed $8,957,000 in its first
five weeks in nine key Japanese cities and a
number of provincial cities where it entered
the third week.
Orion Pictures MONTY PYTHONS
LIFE OF BRIAN grossed $340,912 in a
10-day period in live theatres in New York
and Los Angeles, spearheaded by a record first
week gross of $80,529 in New York's C mema
I
EL CHANFLE, a Mexican comedy film
based on the character from the Latin
American TV series, grossed $104,160 in
seven days in 13 theatres in Puerto Rico.
Sparked by rave reviews. RICH KIDS has
opened with a four day gross of $62,039 in
five theatres across the country
The company reported the following city
b\ -city breakdown: New York. Baronet.
$25,418, Los Angeles. Pla/a Westwood.
$15,415. Toronto. Town Cinema. $10,392.
Boston. Chen I, $5,557. and San Francisco.
$5,257.
United Artists reporis that Woody Allen's
ANNIE HALL has passed us 100th con
secunve week of play in London and has
grossed $5,562,000 throughout the United
Kingdom since it opened in London in
September 1977
SUIT
(continued from page I)
They're bally il they think they're going to
get away with this." Roberts said
Mort Siegel. a member ol the legal depart
ment at American International, contends
that the sun is unwarranted.
"It has no merit whatsoever." Siegel said.
When asked aboul the evidence thai Roberts
is bringing lorward lo support his case. Siegel
replied. "I don't think the plaintiff can sustain
his position."
American International's suspense thriller.
THE AMITYVTLLE HORROR, has climbed
to a total gross of $41,702,433 in 31 days in
440 theatres.
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BOXOFFICeSEPTEMBER 10, 1979
Grand old houses fast becoming a memory
Many of life's most enduring treasures are forever enshrined in the past, an
amalgamation of harmonious conceptions permanently committed to memory.
Like a vintage wine that becomes increasingly more delectable with age, our
appreciation of and emotional and physical attraction to places and things out of the
past often become more amplified with the quiet passage of time.
A TYPICAL EXAMPLE is the obsession with nostalgia that has been sweeping the
country in recent years.
Motion pictures and their sites of exhibition have changed considerably over the
years. Gone are the glamour and excitement commonly associated with the golden age
of Hollywood and the grand opulence of the great movie palaces of a bygone era.
The American Film Institute is sponsoring a special series of classic film showings to
recreate the excitement of moviegoing in the industry's heyday in the 1 930s and 1 940s.
Appropriately titled "The Best Remaining Seats," the program, which commenced early
last month and will continue through mid-October, features the presentation of 10
classic films being shown in the great surviving movie houses in Los Angeles and
neighboring cities. Although the selection of films in the series is truly outstanding, the
real accent seems to be upon the breathtaking architectural elegance of the theatres in
which the films are being shown.
THE PROVOCATIVE TITLE of the special AF1 series was derived from an infor
mative, richly illustrated book of the same name written a number of years ago by Ben
M. Hall. In the book's foreward, veteran film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, "The fact
should be recognized that the total effect of a motion picture is conditioned to a greater
or lesser extent by the environment in which it is shown."
Recalled Arthur Knight, noted film historian and professor of cinema studies at the
University of Southern California, "No matter how good or bad the film itself may
have been, it received a respectful setting, and often in theatres that were spectacular
in their own right."
The brain child of the AFI series, and the person to whom most, if not all, of the
credit should go for turning a brillantly conceived vision into a very real and rewarding
experience, is Michael Webb, AFI director of national programming. He not only
dreamed up the idea for such a program, but also mounted an assiduous effort to coor
dinate the difficult logistics and scheduling involved in bringing together the stars and
directors, securing the classic films and choosing the picturesque movie palaces around
which the series is being based.
Darling Clementine" on Sept. 22, and on Oct. 6. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is expected to
present one of his father's swashbuckling hits, "The Black Pirate."
I he series will conclude in befitting style on Oct. I ft when one of Hollywood's truly
legendary directors, Frank Capra. presents one of his great pictures, "Lost Horizon"
(which has been restored to its original release length), in one of the most celebrated
theatres in the country. Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (formerly Grauman's).
The 10 surviving Southern California theatres selected for the series include the
Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Theatre, the Avalon Theatre on
C atalina Island and the exquisite Crown Theatre in Pasadena. All were built or planned
m the 20s and range in style and decor from Art Deco to Spanish, from Louis XIV to
Chinese.
MANY OF THE GREAT decorous movie houses of the '20s and '30s have long
since vanished, victims of urban decline and the mass population migration to the
suburbs. Indeed many of the survivors are also threatened with extinction either
through demolition, recycling or restoration projects that would probably render their
once grand appeal antiseptic by former standards of excellence—a sad throwback to
the proverbial winds of change that we all so proudly hail as progress.
For sure, the great cities such as Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and
Chicago were not the only ones to rale such sumptuous theatrical environs.
One such reference was made by Hall in his definitive book on the subject. The
Paradise Theatre in Faribault. Minn., was small—only 850 seats—but a movie palace
nonetheless, he wrote, "and it was unquestionably atmospheric." A sign posted by the
electrical switchboard firmly established the little theatre's kinship with its distant,
larger relatives in the big cities: "Please do not turn on the clouds until the show starts.
Be sure the stars are turned off when leaving."
EMINENT THEATRE ARCHITECT George Rapp once wrote, "Watch the eyes
of a child as it enters the portals of our great theatres and treads the pathway into
fairyland ... the eyes of the tired shopgirl who sighs with satisfaction as she walks
amid furnishings that once delighted the hearts of queens ... the toil-worn father
whose dreams have never come true but who finds strength and rest within the theatre.
It is a shrine to democracy where there are no privileged patrons."
We doff our cap to Webb and the members of the American Film Institute for helping
remind us of the grand cultural heritage from which our great industry evolved. In
looking to the challenges of the future, we tend to lose sight of or simply dismiss the
past.
Preserving the grand old movie houses of an earlier, more flamboyant era is a matter
of historical as well as cultural importance.
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tagious. The redemption of an endangered species rests tenuously in the balance.
AMONG THE CLASSIC films being shown in the two month series and their
presenters are veteran director King Vidor and his grand 1 925 World War l epic "The
Big Parade" (Aug. 16), Ruby Keeler with "Footlight Parade" and clips from other
musicals of the '30s (Aug. 30| and Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" (Sept.
13), a
Technicolor animation that, like the late Disney himself, was well ahead of its time.
Henry Fonda is tentatively scheduled to present the classic John Ford western "My
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Warner Bros, has a Sept. 17 shooting date
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YOUNG MEN OF WEINBERG, a wild
comedy set in a military academy. Robert
Downey will direct from an original
screenplay by Tom Patched and Jay Tarses.
Marvin Worth and Damon Rissner will pro
duce.
20th Century-Fox has signed Colin Higgins
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da in an IPC Films production to be produced
by Bruce Gilbert from an original screenplay
by Pat Resnick.
Forum Productions will begin filming Sept.
10 in Wichita. Kan., on THE ATTIC, a
drama thriller starring Carrie Snodgress and
Ray Milland. A 12-day shooting schedule has
been set for Wichita; filming is to follow in
Hollywood for four weeks George Edwards
will direct from a script he wrote with Tony
Grechalev Ray Dryden and Phil Randall are
the producers. Emmy award winner Hod
David Schudson will compose the score.
Quixote Productions will make THE
PEEPER, based on an original story idea by
David Schmoeller. who will write the script
and direct.
Spiegel Bergman Films will begin principal
photography Oct. 1 7 in Toronto on PHOBIA.
to be directed by John Huston and star Paul
Michael Glaser. Also starring is John Colicos.
Lew Lehman. James A. Sangster and Peter
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Bellwood have written the screenplay based
on an original story bj Gary Sherman and
Ronald Shuseti Larry Spiegel and Mel
Bergman Will be executive producers and Zale
Magder will produce.
\rgOS) I ilins Inc. has set an Oct 8 Start
date and a nine week shooting schedule on
I III LAST C HANCE, starring Lee Majors
and Burgess Meredith in a futuristic adventurestory
set in the 2 1st Century. The story concerns
a time when cars and gasoline no longer
exist and most of the population has been
reduced to those under the age of 13. Marty n
Burke will produce and direct; Fran Rosati is
co-producing. Christopher Crowe wrote the
script Gene Slolt will be executive producer.
HARLEQUIN, a contemporary love story
thriller inspired by the story of Rasputin and
his relationship with Russia's royal family at
the turn of the century, is under production in
Perth. Australia. David Hemmings, Robert
Powell and Broderick Crawford are starring.
Simon Wincer is directing the F.G. Films Pro
ductions feature. William Fayman and Antony
I. Ginnane are producing.
Filming is underway on locations in
Chicago on Universal's THE BLUES
BROTHERS, starring John Belushi and Dan
Aykroyd in the story of Jake and Elwood
Blues, whose first record album was a double
platinum hit. John Landis is directing the
iargescale musical comedy and Robert K.
Weiss is producing the screenplay by Aykroyd
and Landis.
Woody Allen will begin shooting this
month on a new untitled comedy for United
Artists release.
The new film, written by Allen, will star
himself. Charlotte Rampling. Mane-Christine
Barrault and Jessica Harper.
Warner Bros.' GOING IN STYLE, starring
George Burns. Art Carney and Lee Strasberg.
has completed principal photography in Las
Vegas following 12 weeks of location filming
in New York City
Writer-producer Andrew J. Fenady has
assigned Jameson Brewer and Kev in Coates to
develop a feature film on daredevil Red Hill,
who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel more
than 20 years ago and was killed The story
deals with the colorful Hill family of river
rats" living in the Niagara gorge area.
t.\s. a contemporary comedy about
America's reactions to the energy crisis, is now
in production as a David/Panzer Wolf Lilms
production to be produced b> Peter Davis and
William N. Panzer. The script is by Richard
A. Wolf from an original story by Wolf and
Susan Scranton.
Film director-writer David Cronenberg's
newest film adveture. SCANNERS, is now in
pre production in Montreal and Toronto. Produced
by Filmplan International Inc., the film
has a budget of $4. 1 million.
THE AMAZING COSMIC CONNEC-
TION, a comedy concerning an idealistic alien
being and a disenfranchised Santa Monica bus
driver, will be brought to the screen by MGM.
B. Armyan Bernstein is writing the screenplay
and will co produce with Alan Greisman.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer has signed the
husband and wife writing team of Sharon and
Paul Boorstin to develop the screenplay of
PREGGERS, a contemporary social comedy.
Warner Bros, has concluded a deal with pro
ducers Dan Rissner. Jon Avnet and Steve
Tisch for the development of COLDSTEELE
AND NEON. The picture will be a content
porary romantic caper set against the
background of the Mardi Gras celebration in
New Orleans. Filming is slated to begin in
1980 from an original screenplay by Ezra
Sacks and Richard Mellen. which Sacks is currently
rewriting.
CANT STOP THE MUSIC, starring the
Village People. Valerie Pernne and Bruce Jenner,
began filming Aug. 20 on location in New
York City. The contemporary musical is an
Allan Carr Production. Nancy Walker is
directing from a screenplay by Bronte
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Woodard and Allan Carr. Carr is producing
the EMI film with Jacques Morali and Henri
Belolo.
casting
Paul Sand has signed to costar in Alan
Carr s
CANT STOP THE MUSIC.
Jud> Landers has been signed to two major
film roles, one Joseph Waumbaugh's BLACK
MARBLK for Avco Embassy, and the other
in Rastar'sSKATETOWN U.S.A. for Columbia.
Apollo, Motown's musical group, will debut
in movies singing tunes from its current album
in Orion Pictures' DIE LAUGHING, being
produced by Jon Peters and filming in San
Francisco.
Thomas Hulce. who turned in a standout
comedy performance in "Animal House" has
been signed for a starring role in THOSE
LIPS, THOSE EYES, portraying a young
medical student who takes a temporary job as
a summer stock stage hand and promptly falls
in love, not only with a shapely dancer but
with the theatrical profession.
Gene Kelly has signed to star with Olivia
Newton John in XANADU, a Lawrence Gor
don production of an original musical fantasy
to begin shooting Sept. 18 for Universal Pic
lures. Robert Reenwald is directing, Gordon is
producing and Lee Kramer is executive producer.
assignments
Still
photographer J.C. Cortier has been appointed
vice president in charge of casting for
films and television for Peter Gayles'
Worldfilm Productions. His first casting chore
will be for CANNABIS ROW, an international
spy thriller
Singer/songwriter Dave Mason, who has
written and recorded such hit songs as "Feelin'
Alright" and "We Just Disagree." will perform
on camera in SKATETOWN, U.S.A. In addition
to singing "Feelin' Alright." Mason has
written two new songs lor the film:
"Skatetown"«and "I Fell in Love."
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T studios.
The executive producer is Douglas
Macdonald, head of Film House Quinn Labs
Mirrophonic Sound, the largest post
production complex in this country.
George McCowan will direct the film, and
his recent feature film credits include The
Shape of Things to Come" and the upcoming
'"Shadow of the Hawk " The film has a budget
of $4. 1 million and is being produced by
Wcstfront Productions Inc., with the par
licipation of the Canadian film Development
Corp.
TORONTO
On its opening day, "Apocalypse Now"
established a new boxoffice record at the
University here and in Los Angeles as well. On
Oct. 10 it is due to open in several hundred
theatres across the continent.
Director-writer David Cronenberg's newest
film, "Scanners," is due to start shooting here
and in Montreal Oct. 22. Cronenberg's films
are usually made at modest cost, but with a
budget set at $4.1 million (his is his most
important film to date. "Scanners" is an
original fiction thriller written by Cronenberg,
and his three previous films—"The Brood."
"Rabid" and "Shivers"—were all top grossers.
This is the third in Filmplan's major production
program for this year, and Victor Solnicki
and Pierre David are executive producers.
For the first time in Us long history, the
Uptown here is scheduling no less than eight
screenings daily for "Life of Brian."
Between mid-September and mid May. the
Toronto Film Society will screen 10 double
bills of vintage films at the Crest.
Young Variety is presenting 10 perfor
mances of "Bye Bye Birdie" in early
September; all proceeds will go to Variety
Club projects.
Forty days after its release, filmmakers John
Dunning and Andre Link of Haliburton Films
announced that "Meatballs" had already
established a record for a Canadian film, gross
ing $25.6 million on this continent. $2.6
million of this came from Canadian boxoffice
sales. The film cost $16 million to produce.
and Paramount put up $4 million for publicity
Haliburton is currently making "The
Squad," a comedy, and "Yesterday," a love
story concerning an American boy and a
French Canadian girl.
Drive-ins are on their way out, here as
elsewhere across the continent Rising land
values as well as increasing operating expenses
have eliminated all drive-in theatres within
metro Toronto boundaries, although Twinex
Century Theatres is currently spending more
than $20,000 to update the sound system at its
triple-screen 400 drive in
Drive ins were discussed in some detail by
reporter John Picton in a Sunday Star feature.
Twinex currently operates 10 drive in theatres
in the province.
"Movies are the only retail business where
only one article of merchandise was on sale at
a time," explained this company's vice presi
dent, Myer Axler. "No other retail outlet sold
only one item." The number of drive-ins in
Canada dropped slightly from 315 in 1975 to
298 in 1977.
Scotty Peacock, manager of the Teepee
drive in in Pickering, recalled chasing cows off
the lot and ushering horses and riders from
nearby stables to a special section away from
the cars. That was in 1947, when Canadians
first got hooked on the drive-in habit.
Orson Welles returned to major film roles
to star in "Never Trust An Honest Thief," an
adventure comedy that has started to be filmed
here. Co-stamng with Welles will be Michael
Murphy, acclaimed for his recent roles in "An
Unmarried Woman" and "Manhattan."
"Never Trust An Honest Thief" is being
produced by Zale Magder, founder of this
country's largest new film and TV production
first run report
TORONTO
Alien (20th Foxl, University,
1 2th wk Very Good
The Amityville Horror (AFDl. Plaza.
3rd wk
Very Good
La Cage Am Folles IUA). Imperial.
5th wk
Very Good
The Frisco Kid (WBl, Plaza. 5th wk
Fair
The In-Laws (WBl. Hollywood,
9th wk
Good
Manhattan (Para) Uptown. 17th wk Good
Meatballs iParal, Uptown. 8th wk
Good
Moonraker (UAI, Eglinton. 7th wk Good
North Dallas Forty (Paral, Hollywood.
2nd wk
Very Good
Rich Kids (UAI, Towne. 1st wk
Very Good
Rocky II (UA). Uptown, 9th wk
Good
•Star Wars (20th Foxl, lstwk
Excellent
MONTREAL
Alien (2Uth Foxl York.
9th wk
Excellent
The Amityville Horror (AFDl. Loews 2,
3rd wk
Very Good
Bloodline (Para). Loews 4, 6th wk Very Good
The Concorde— Airport '79 (Univl, Atwater,
3rd wk
Very Good
The Frisco Kid |WB), Avenue, 4th wk
. Excellent
The In-Laws (Para), Loews 5, 10th wk . Good
Manhattan (UAI. Place Ville Marie.
1 5th wk Good
Meatballs (Para), The Cinema. 4th wk Very Good
Moonraker (U A). Loews 1 . 7th wk Very Good
More American Graffiti (Univ). Bonaventure
2nd wk
Very Good
North Dallas Forty iPara), Claremont.
1 st wk Excellent
Rocky II (U A), Loews 3, 1 0th wk Very Good
Unidentified Flying Oddball (BV).
Van Home. 2nd wk
Good
French Language films
Appranlisvage a I'Fcoli' |( mcpixl, Pansicn 3,
2nd wk
Good
La Cage Aux Folles (UA). Pansien 2,
21st wk
Excellent
l.e C'iel Peut Attendre (Paral. Parisien 5.
27th wk
Very Good
La Guerre des Ftoiles 120th Foxl. Champlain.
1st wk
Excellent
L'Hommc in C olere (Cine 360), Parisien I.
23rd wk
Good
'Hotel de la Plage lOncpix). Parisien 4,
2nd wk
Very Good
Superman le Film (WB). Bern. 3rd wk Very Good
WINNIPEG
Ami-ncathon ItJAI, Northstar II. 1st wk. Excellent
Ihi- Amit>\illi- Horror IAI D), Northstar I.
4th wk Excellent
I In Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again iBVl.
(iarden City, 4lh wk
Good
The Concorde— Airport "79 Iljnivl. Odeon.
1st wk Very Good
The Frisco Kid (WBl. Colony. 1st wk Excellent
Hot Stuff (Coll. 2 screens. 1st wk Very Good
The In-Laws (WBl. Polo Park. 10th wk. Oo

BOXOFFICE/SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
This chart records the performance of current attractions in the opening week of their first run thousands of dollars, for each film (No. of screens/gross) t indicates that the gross covers a
engagements in the key cities listed. The most recent figures reflect Boxon ice Barometer's new period less than seven days, J indicates more than seven days. All other figures are gross percenreportin
procedure and indicate the total number of theatre screens and the total gross, in tages. based on average weekly theatre grosses, with 1 00 per cent reflecting an average gross.
TOP HITS OF THE WEEK
lmli\ nltial ratty not an a\ fra^e. Listings art' ton/in
«/ tn opening week figures on new releases onl\
I. Apocalypse Now |UA(
Los Angeles
I/I50
2. The Life of Brian (WBl
New York I /8
Los Angeles
2/I0I
3. The Seduction of Joe Tynan (Univl
New York 6/266
4 Rich Kids (UA)
New York I/38
5. Orchestra Rehearsal (New Yorkerl
New York
|/3i
6. Soldier of Orange (TIPS)
New York i/23
Amencathon lUAl

BOXOFFICE/SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
CHICAGO
(continued from page 7)
film stars Charles Bronson. Jill Ireland and
Rod Steiger.
George Kennedy is due here for a two-day
visit to promote his movie, "The Con
corde— Airport "79."
American International's "The Amityville
Horror," one of the bigger summer hits, is set
for a first subrun starting Sept. 28.
Neil Young's "Rust Never Sleeps," handled
by Mid America Releasing Co., opens Sept. 7
in the Chicago area at the McClurg Court
theatre and selected theatres including the Old
Orchard, Evergreen, Normal, Norndge and
Willowcreek. It was filmed during Young's
1978 concert tour with his veteran band.
Crazy Horse. The film includes "Rust A
Vision" (aka 3D) and gnomelike creatures
called Roadeyes presiding on the stage The
PG rated film is an International Harmony
release.
Rick Warner, manager of the Biograph
Theatre, reported they brought in "Real Life"
more or less as a fill in. The film turned out to
be a very positive piece for business for five
weeks, without advance publicity or special
advertising. Albert Brooks, who contributed
talent to "NBC's Saturday Night Live," wrote,
directed and starred in the film.
Next on the Biograph program will be a
return showing of Werner Herzog's "Aguiria."
Instead of the original 16mm film, however it
will be shown for the first time in 35mm.
MILWAUKEE
While in the city to promote her current
porno film being screened at the Princess
Theatre, "The Erotic Adventures of Candy."
filmmaker Gail Palmer told a local newsman
that deviant sex was not found in her movies.
"Mine are very clean dirty movies." she told
Joel McNally of the Journal "There is no
violence."
Palmer terms "Candy" a cute film and said
it had grossed $4.5 million. She writes, pro
duces and directs her films and sometimes
makes cameo appearances in them: "You
know, like Hitchcock." she said.
Explaining why she makes porno flicks.
Palmer said: "Some people like to go to
McDonalds and some people like to go to
X-rated movies." In the end, she said, "We all
make money."
Both foreign and domestic films, "that have
been neglected by the (local! commercial
theatres," are to be offered this fall by the
University of Wisconsin's YSV Film Society
at the UWM Union Cinema. The lineup of
award winning films, made up of all
Milwaukee firsts, includes: "Northern Lights,"
a documentary concerning North Dakota in
about 1915 and which was deemed the best
film at the recent Cannes Film Festival. The
showing of this film Oct. 3 will benefit the
Great Lakes Film Festival
Other films are "Violette," a psychological
thriller, "Dossier 51," a 1976 spy film.
"Femmes Fatales." a 1976 comedy and
"Women," a 1977 film that brought recogni
tion to the Hungarian director Marta
Mesatros.
Accompanying the features will be shorts.
some of which are produced by local
moviemakers. Admission is $2.50 for adults.
$2 for students and $ I for YSV members. The
screenings are in the evening and end Oct. 28.
planned to offer student discounts beginning
this lull Hie Fausts purchased the theatre
from Georgine Husten of East Troy.
The I'la/j reopened in mid August undei
the new ownership with "The Apple Dump
ling Gang Rides Again" Evening showings
are ai 7 and 9. matinees on Saturday and Sun
day are al 1.15 p.m
James F. Norton, owner and opcr.mw ol
Norton's Cinema 1 in c hilton, Wis., marked
his second anniversary with a special treat, a
free movie for children on Saturday, Aug. 1
Norton announced " I his is our w.iv ol saying
thank you for your support over the past two
years and we look forward to entertaining you
in the future." The feature film was "Ragged)
Ann & Andy," which was shown al 1(1 ,i m
and al I pan. and 3 p.m. The mov ie house also
has a new slogan "At the Cinema I — You're
Second to None "
Southtown, Spring Mall and Mill Road
were the three theatres t hut had a promotional
tie in with the Slocum Pontiac auto sales com
pany on the city's far southwest side. Two free
movie passes were given with every lesl drive
in the campaign dial lasted several weeks
"\\ e gave out a whole lot of movie passes." the
sales manager (old BOXOI I It 1 but said he did
not know how many. "It was mosi
successful," he said.
Not as successful al dispensing free tickets
was the Port of Sound, stereo systems and ser
vice store with two local stores which had a
lie in with Mill Road Fourplex. Free tickets
were dispensed by the stores to customers who
came in lo "experience ihe JBL sound." The
movie offering was a preview showing of
"More American Graffiti" held on a Saturday
morning "The turnout wasn't too good." ihe
store manager said. "We should have had an
evening performance."
Capitol Court Twin Theatres were included
in the birthday celebration arranged at the
Capitol Court's Shopping Center during
August when a special showing of "Same
Time. Next Year" was run at a 10 a.m. screen
ing for only 50 cents and the presentadon of a
discount coupon obtainable from the many
center stores. Staged on a first-come, lirsi
served basis, the one time-only screeing was
sponsored by the Capitol Court Merchants
Association and Marcus Corp.
Nova Theatre in Medford. Wis., observed
its third anniversary Aug. 8 14 with a special
admission charge of "all seats $1." The film
attraction was "Love at First Bite."
The Fox Bay Theatre in (he Milwaukee
suburb of Whuefish Bay had a lie in with the
local Citizens North Shore Bank for a Sept. 13
showing of the movie "Funny Girl" for senior
citizens. The 9:15 a.m. screening was to be
preceded by pre show refreshments. Tickets
were free for the asking and the party was a
promotion for the bank's new V.I.C. (Very
Important Citizenl program.
Paula Jamrock of the John litis Associates.
Chicago-based publicity agency for Universal,
sent out invitations for a preview showing of
"The Seduction of Joe Tynan." starring Alan
Alda. on the afternoon of Aug. 22. The
R -rater was unreeled at the Centre Screening
Room. 212 W Wisconsin Ave
Using the same film facility was An Heling.
Al's local branch office manager, who had a
special
lradescreening of "The Stud" on the
afternoon of Aug. 28. The R rated film is based
on the Jackie Collins' book. "The Stud." which
had a sale of over a million copies.
you'll learn an awful lol about professional
football and what makes u nek." said Journal
film critic Beimel I Waxse about "North
Dallas Forty." "You won't even have to
believe ii all to enjoy this picture a real win
ner." said Waxse.
Ihe National Football League refused lo
cooperate in (he making of (he film. Waxse
savs " North Dallas Forty' is raied R for its
locker room conversation I he dialogue is rid
died with coarse and crude language and
seems natural enough in its context, but be
'
prepared
INDIANAPOLIS
Claudia Jennings, a former Playboy
magazine playmate and Richmond. Ind., resi
dent, made a personal appearance and signed
autographs at the Casllelon Square VI recently
in connection with ihe racing adventure story
"Fast Company." playing at the Castlcton
Square VI, Twin East Drive-In, Pendleton
Pike Drive In. Southview Drive In and Tibbs
3 Drive-In.
Charles Durning, Carol Kane and Colleen
Dewhurst star in the Columbia release "When
a Stranger Calls." Every babysitter's
nightmare, ihe suspense thriller opened at (he
George(own. Carlyle and Soulh 31 Drive In.
The 20th Century-Fox hit "Alien" started a
subrun last week, adding (he Lafayene Square
III and Regency 2 theatres.
The Who, rock music superstars, invaded
Indianapolis with their new film, "The Kids
Are Alright," which opened an exclusive
engagement at the Eastwood Theatre.
Manager Ron Kecdy coordinated a radio pro
motion with WNAP FM and Karma records.
Each day listeners were told lo tune in Friday
to find out where free premiere tickets could
be picked up. The secret locations were the
Karma records stores throughout the city.
rickets were awarded on a first tome, first
serve basis at all Karma stores
Karma records created a large display for
the movie in the lobby of the theatre. A
WNAP disk jockey was on hand the first
night lo give away "The Kids Are Alright"
soundtracks, currently the No 8 album in the
country, according to Billboard maga/me. The
Eastwood features four channel Dolby stereo,
a 65 foot curved screen and special 1 1 :30 p.m.
late shows the first two weeks
ST. LOUIS
first run report
KANSAS CITY
Americafhon IUAI. 4 screens. 3rd wk 3.978
The Amitvville Horror (All. 6 screens.
5th wk. 14.588
Breaking Awav (20th-F'oxl. Watts Mill.
5th wk 1.495
Cemetery Girls iSRl. 1st wk 16.966
The Concorde— Airport '79 lUnivi. 5 screens.
4ih wk
N.A.
Dirt (American Cinema). 3rd wk.
Metro North 1.308
Metro Plaza 188
The Double McGuffin iMulberry Square).
3 screens. 1st wk 21.600
Hot Stuff iCol), 4 screens. 3rd wk 16,586
The Kids Are Alrighl ISRl. 1st wk.
Antioch
N.A.
Blue Ridge N.A.
The Main Event (WBl, Glenwcod.
10th wk 8.513
Meatballs (Paral. Trail Ridge.
7th wk 13 da.) 787
Moonraker iL'Al. 9ih wk
Plaza 3.258
Ranchman 3.779
More American Graffiti lUnivi. 5 screens.
4th wk
N.A.
Ihe Muppel Movie (AFD). Oak Park.
lOih wk 4.563
Advertised as the "ultimate cosmic
comedy." "Dark Star" is showing at the Cross
Keys Cine, Ellisville. Ronnie's, St. Ann and St.
Andrews. It stars Brian Narcllc and Dan
O'Bannon O'Bannon also wrote the script
with John Carpenter, (he dircclor of this film
as well as the sleeper "Halloween."
Richard Pryor is back in a second "live in
concert" appearance Filmed in a different
location on a different date, it nevertheless
contains most of the material of the first
9
Bill
Sargent presentation. It is currently at
Northland and Sunset Hills.
Unlike the 4 stars awarded to such current
fare as "Breaking Away." "The Muppct
Movie." "Alien" and "Moonraker."
(continued on page 10)
North Dallas Kortv (Paral. 6 screens,
4th wk 27.109
The Seduction of Joe Tvnan ISR). 6 screens.
2nd wk N.A.
•Star Wars I20lh Fox). 12 screens. 2nd wk. 42.583
The Tree of Wooden Clogs iNew Yorkerl.
Fine Arts. 3rd wk
N.A.
The Villain IC oil. 6th wk.
Metro North 2.009
Oak Park 3.9%
The W anderers iWBl. Empire, 2nd wk 1.675
CHICAGO
The Amityville Horror IAD. 15 screens.
4th wk
200.000
Breaking Awav (20th Fox). 7 screens.
5th wk
103,248
La Cage Aux Folles ISRl. Cinema.
7lh wk
13.373
The Frisco Kid |WB). 8 screens. 3rd wk 75.210
Hot Stuff IC oil. 1 1 screens. 3rd wk
81.629
Meatballs (Paral, 24 screens. 1st wk 450.679
More American Graffiti (Univl. 13 screens.
2nd wk
..N.A.
The Muppel Movie (AFD). 10 screens.
4ih wk
367.000
North Dallas Forty iPara). 12 screens.
3rd wk
145.629
Mr. & Mrs. Leon Bender, who operated the
Plaza Theatre in Burlington. Wis., for the past
22 years, have retired. Assuming ownership
and management of the Plaza at 448
Milwaukee Ave., as of Aug 3. are Mr and
Mrs. Harry Faust Jr. Faust, who has had
previous theatre management experience in
the Fort Atkinson area, said that extensive
refurbishing of the theatre would be under
taken.
Film offerings. Faust said, "will emphasize
family movies." Senior citizens will continue
to get ticket discounts and Faust said he
El Lago Theatre in Rice Lake, Wis . had a
theatre party for the Big Timers Savings Club
sponsored by the city's Dairy Stale Bank.
Showtime was II a.m. 1 p.m. on a recent
Saturday and the film fare included "McHale's
Navy Joins the Air Force." plus two cartoons
The little nippers had only to flash a member
ship badge to gain attendance Parents were
also invited.
"You won't see much football or you won't
like all you do see in the locker room, on the
practice field and in the coach's office, but
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"Americathon" was rated at l Vi stars by
Frank Hunter, Globe Democrat entertain
ment editor. He found the film manic but
unamusing in its satire about a flat broke
futuristic America depending on a fund
raising telethon for a bail-out. "It's like they're
paying an endless visit in their worst clothe-..''
he said.
"The Villain" rated only one star. Hunter
describing it as a "witless Western spoof
reminiscent of the 'Road Runner' cartoons
that has Kirk Douglas proving he has about as
much flair for comedy as a CPA." He said that
the talents of Paul Lynde and Ann Margrel
were wasted.
Don Evans has joined the staff at United
Artists as salesman, replacing Tony Bcninati
who retired in August. Don was formerly
booker in UA's Jacksonville, Fla., office. His
wife and two sons will be joining him here
shortly.
Bill Lustig of National Screen Service, Kan
sas City, was in town recently, calling on area
accounts and found time to lunch with Jerry
Banta of Thomas & Shipp
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MIAMI
Actor Michael Caine has been a recent
visitor to the Miami area. He has been here for
the shooting of "The Island." some of the
scenes from which were shot in the Tamiami
Gun Shop. The Universal Pictures suspense
movie, directed by Michael Ritchie, is based
on Peter Benchley's latest novel. Other scenes
are being shoi at the Miami International Air
port, a local marina and at several office
buildings. The cast is just back from several
months in Antigua, where the Coast Guard
cutter Dauntless was used for several se
quences.
Upon completion of the Miami scenes the
group will move on to Abaco in the Bahamas
An article in the The Miami Herald by John
Huddy headlined "For Jerry Lewis, Dream
Turns to Nightmare." points out that for
This fall, for the first time, the public is
invited to attend the film series at St. Louis
University. The World Cinema film series will
include movies from Spain, Germany, Algeria
and other countries as well as the United
States. Screenings will be in Kelley
Auditorium, 25 1 1 Laclede Ave., Tuesdays
and Wednesdays at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Admission
to the public is $1.50, to students with SLU
IDs. $1 The Student Government Associa
tion sponsors the series.
KANSAS CITY
Women of the Motion Picture Industry
held their August dinner meeting at the
Hereford House The board met before the
regular meeting. The September meeting will
be held at Fasone's Supper Club, 5648 State,
Kansas City, Kan., on Sept. 25.
Screenings at Commonwealth recently
included "The Stud" and "Avalanche
Express." The Commonwealth screening
room has recently had new seats installed
Mary Margaret Miller, president of Variety
Club Women, received a write up in The Kan
sas City Times in recognition of the work she
has done for Variety Club International Tent
8 and children's charities.
director Lewis, and Joseph Ford Proctor, the
behind the scenes newcomer, a promising
comeback has at least temporarily turned sour
others.
ATLANTA
and brought two multi-million dollar movies
to a halt
Don Hall, president ol The International
Huddy says that there are conflicting versions
of what has occurred but that another
bold dream to create a South Florida movie
studio has turned into a nightmare. "Hardly
Working." the first film under Procior's highly
touted Gold Coast Studios, is said to be un
finished, and "That's Life." the second movie
in a supposedly $10 million three picture
package of movies directed by Lewis, is only
10 percent complete, according to the article
by John Huddy.
Lewis and Proctor each blame the other, n
is said. Apparently (here were all kinds of pro
blems. but mostly financial ones.
In the crowd ol 600 attending the recenl
premiere of (he made in Miami movie. "Hot
Stuff." at Miami's Byron theatre, was Para
mount Pictures advertising account executive
Tad Distler. as well as many other dignilanes
and celebrities.
It has been announced that a new genre of
pornographic movie has come to Miami
Beach—strong plots, good acting and profes
sional photography, which distinguishes these
films from some of their predecessors. The
question is: are these films pornographic
Residents and businessmen in the Arthur
Godfrey Road area near the Roosevelt
Theatre, where the films are being shown, are
concerned about the welfare of their children
who attend schools across the street from the
theatre.
A recorded voice al (he (heatre tells callers
to the theatre that the movie house offers
"first quality mature films rated XXX to
adults over 21." Police say the movies are of
high quality, and so does the Dade state attorney's
office. The concern has prompted a
seven week investigation by Miami Beach
Police, and the confiscalion of three of the
movies. Art Carter, assistant state attorney,
has filed charges of possession of obscene
material against the Roosevelt theatre and
Picture Show, reports that Ins Atlanta-based
company has acquired the domestic and Canadian
theatrical distribution rights to "The
Visitor."' a dramatic feature starring Mel Ferrer.
Glenn Ford. John Huston and Shelley
Winters. Hall said (he agreement was made
with his company and Ovidio Assonides.
Italian producer of the film One of the leading
pans is played by a new discovery. Paige Conner
of Atlanta, who makes her screen debut
In addition io introducing the young Allan
tan. large segments of I he picture were shol in
Atlanta.
This fall, when "The Visitor" goes into
release. TIPS will have nine movies indistribu
lion, including "Soldier of Orange." which
already is receiving critical acclaim.
From Calhoun, (ia., comes word that things
are going swimmingly on "I ongnders." the
outlaw movie being made there. David. Keith
and Robert Carradine portray the Younger
Brothers in the film; James and Stacy Keach
appear as the James boys; and Randy and
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NEW ORLEANS
W. R. "Randy" Slaughter of R S. Films
Inc.. Dallas, advises that the company is now
handling the New Orleans territory for Film
Ventures International. For ihe time being,
they will be handling business out of the
Dallas office but will be traveling to New
Orleans al leasi twice a month. I- VI presently
has in release the following pictures: "The
Shape of Things to tome,'' "Beyond the Door
Part II." "The Dark." "Hometown U.S.A."
and "The Dragon Lives."
Blue Ribbon Pictures screened Sanno's
"Nutcracker Fantasy" Aug. 2 1 at the Lakeside
Theatre, followed by a luncheon al Augie's
Restaurant. "Nutcracker Fantasy" is schedul
ed for a Christmas release.
Ron Pabst, Blue Ribbon Pictures. New
Orleans, and Belton Clark, Clark Films,
Jacksonville. Fla.. visited with Bill Minkus.
representing Clark Blue Ribbon Piciures in
Memphis. Ihe past week. While [here, they
met with Malco Theatres and Larry Vinson of
Tri State Theatres.
CHARLOTTE
"Star Wars" returns: Harold Hall,
manager of the Manor Theatre, has them
standing in line to see "Star Wars" again. Its
weekend grosses are comparable to first run
pictures and it is likely Ihe film will be playing
an extended run.
Screenings at Car-Mel: "Squeeze Play"
(Variety Pictures), "Sex & Violence" and "Ter
ror" (Tar Heel Filmsl.
Phil Nance, presidenl of Nance Enterprises
of Raleigh, N.C.. is having a special screening
of "Hot Stuff," set for TV, radio and news
media. Nance contacted Jerry Reed, one of
the stars who will fly to Raleigh to serve as
host for ihe show
From the desk of Smilin' Jack Jordan,
advertising executive for Southern Booking &
Advertising: Norm Whisnant. of the Carolina
Mall Cinemas in Concord N.C., made the
front page of the Concord paper with a
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BOXOFFICE/SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
HOLLYWOOD
Bernardo Bertolucci will introduce and
discuss his latesi film. "Luna." during the
special tribute honoring him as part of the
American Film Institute's National Conference
on Film and Television. Oct 1 1-14.
The film will have its West toast premiere
Oct. 1 2 at the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences Jill C las burgh stars in
"Luna" as a famous American opera singer
Producer-director Peter Yates and 20th
Century Fox have received the award of
excellence from the Film Advisory Board for
"Breaking Away." The presentation was made
Aug. 26 at the Hollywood Bowl restaurant to
Art Levison. associate producer of the film,
and Eddie Kafafian. national director of promotion
for Fox.
Avco Embassy has changed its mind again,
going back to "A Man. a Woman and a Bank"
title for the feature starring Donald
Sutherland. For a short time the film was called
"A Very Big Withdrawal."
Casablanca Film Works has completed principal
photography on "The Hollywood
Knights," a Columbia release.
John Badham has signed a two-year deal
with Paramount to produce and direct films.
No details on forthcoming projects were given
in the announcement by Donald C Simpson,
vice president in charge of production.
Badham most recently directed Universale
"Dracula" starring Frank Langella. and before
that Paramoum's "Saturday Night Fever."
Marvin H. Bernstein, president of Brandeis
University, will be the principal speaker at the
Sept. 26 dinner honoring Ashley A. Boone Jr..
president of distribution and marketing at
20th Century-Fox. Boone, a I960 graduate of
Brandeis. will be inducted as a member of the
university's Presdent's Council at the dinner at
the Plaza Hotel. Proceeds from the dinner will
be used to establish a scholarship fund in
Boone's name. General chairman for the dinner
is Dennis C. Stanfill. chairman, president
and chief executive oficer of 20th Century-
Fox Film Corp.
Debbie Reynolds, Jane Withers and the
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will join to
create a Hollywood Museum, ending years of
separate attempts by each to form a central
location to contain motion picture
memorabilia. Reynolds and Withers control
two of the largest private collections of
Hollywood memorabilia and artifacts and will
display them at the new facility. The chamber
will contribute its Hollywood Historic Trust to
the venture. A museum site in the Hollywood
and Vine area is to be announced shortly.
SAN DIEGO
Richard Rush, director of "Freebie and the
Bean" and "Getting Straight." was in town
last week to preview his new film. "The Stuntman,"
starring Peter OToole. Steve Railsback
and Barbara Hershey, at Mann's Valley Circle
Theatre. "The Stuntman" has been two years
in the making, some of which was spent on
location in San Diego for nine weeks in
November and December of 1977. Locations
used were La Jolla Cove and Hotel del Coronado.
The hotel, which happens to be a
national landmark, was also used in the com
edy classic, "Some Like It Hot" and will be
seen in "Loving Couples."
In an interview with the San Diego Union's
Carol Olten. director Rush said. "We are
testing two versions at the sneaks. The one
that will be screened here is the shorter version.
The other picture has 15 minutes more
footage toward the front of the film." Rush
also said that he loves the film and that he's
"ready for an honest verdict."
In that case. Rush was probably very disap
pointed with the preview. Shown before the
preview was "North Dallas Forty." which was
well received. "The Stuntman" was not.
Members of the audience were laughing
during unintentionally funny moments and
booed during the end credits.
"Time was when you could always count on
Irwin Allen for two things—a somewhat sappy
story and spectacular special effects," writes
Bill Hagen of the Evening Tribune. "Well,
'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure' indicates
that you can still count on him for one of
them. The Nelson Gidding screenplay is so silly
it makes 'The Swarm' look like literature. But
what happened to the special effects They
look like culls from Allen's 'Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea' television series. Even the
water raging through the capsized liner looks
as perilous as a Jacuzzi."
A major student production is scheduled to
finish work here this week. TRI Productions
has been working since June 25 on "The
Cove," the story of the psychological terror
that follows in the wake of a shark attack.
Being shot on local beaches, the film has gotten
tremendous publicity in local papers and
on local TV news shows.
DENVER
Steve Wells, who operates the Alhambra
Theatre in Pleasant Grove, Utah, has signed
with Dick Epperson Film Service to do his
buying and booking.
Don Graham, who operates theatres in
Mountain Home. Idaho, has renamed his
theatres. The Canyon Theatre will now be
known as the Gaslight and the Motor-Vu now
becomes the Twilight Drive-In Theatre.
Warner Marketing in Bozeman. Monthandles
the datings for both theatres.
Morrie Birnbaum and Bruce Marshall of
the local Columbia office traveled to Billings,
Mont., for some meetings with Tim Warner of
Warner Marketing.
TUCSON
Subscriptions lor U of As 4th annual
Classic Film Series are now available. The
series' 32 films screen on alternate weeks Mon
day to Friday at 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost for
nonstudents is $10 and S8 lor students. Fall
semester subscriptions are $5 for students and
S6 for nonstudents.
SAN FRANCISCO
The Telluride Film Festival this year
attracted Gary Meyer of Parallax Theatres,
Ted Shugrue from Columbia Pictures and
Mike Thomas and Jesse Beaton, representing
Mike Thomas Theatres.
Jack Green has retired from his partnership
position at Motion Picture Service as of Aug.
31.
Paul Kolas has been promoted from the
contract department at Paramount Pictures to
a booker position, replacing Eric
Kleinhandler. who is leaving the Bay Area.
Henry Pryzborowski, after nearly 40 years
in the film business, is retiring as local head of
National Film Service. A retirement party in
his honor was held at Oronte's Sept. 6.
Parallax Theatres took over operation of
the Tower triplex, Sacramento, on Sept. 7.
Pacific Theatres has also terminated operation
of the Fruitridge Drive-In. Sacramento, which
is scheduled for demolition.
PORTLAND
New employees include Dave Peterson.
former publicity and promotion director of
Paulic International Enterprises, advertising,
Vickie Connor, payroll and accounting, and
Mark Sannes, boxoffice reports.
New managers include Carla Haynes at the
Soulhgate in Salem, Don Moore at the Music
Box in Portland, Jay Kim at the Town in
Hillsboro, Ben Nestell at the North Salem
Drive-In and George Ramsdell, formerly with
General Cinema in Florida.
Luxury Theatres, also known as Tom
Moyer Theatres, is one of several defendants
in a lawsuit filed by Moyer Theatres Inc..
first run report
LOS ANGELES
Alien (20ih Fox). 7 screens,
I5thwk $57,100
Americathon IUAI. 6 screens.
3rdwk 22,500
The Amilvville Horror (AD. 23 screens,
5th wk 175,700
Apocalypse Nov. (UA), Cinerama Dome,
2ndwk 143.600
Bevond the Poseidon Adventure iWBl,
Westwood II. 2nd wk 6.200
Breaking Awav l20th Foxl. 7 screens,
Istwk 73,500
Citv on Fire lAvco), 14 screens.
1st wk. (4 da) 55.900
The Concorde— Airport '79 (Univl.
6 screens. 4th wk 36.800
Dirt I American Cinema Releasing). 15 screens,
Istwk 120,500
Dracula lUnivl, 9 screens. 17th wk 9.400
Hot Stuff (Col). 17 screens.
2ndwk 125,800
The In-Laws IWBl. Century Plaza
1 Ith wk. 6.500
Jaguar Lives (All, 3 screens,
Istwk. (4 da) 108.200
The Last Wave [World Northall. Royal.
15th wk 8,400
La Cage Aux Folles IUAI, Music Hall.
6th wk 41,600
The Life of Brian (Orion WBl. 2 screens,
2ndwk. 76,200
Love and Bullets (AFDl. 17 screens,
lstwk.(4da) 83,400
Meatballs (Para), 2 screens, 7th wk 6,300
Moonraker(UA). 12 screens. 9th wk 72.400
More American Graffiti lUnivl. 8 screens.
4th wk 33,600
The Muppet Movie IAFDI, 18 screens,
4th wk 142,900
North Dallas Forty (Para). 9 screens,
4th wk 71,400
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Atlantic).
2 screens, 5th wk 9.700
Rich Kids (UA), Plaza Westwood,
2ndwk 19.600
Saint Jack (New Worldl, Avco Westwood.
Istwk 16.700
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (Univ),
8 screens, 2nd wk 101,300
Soldier of Orange (TIPSl, Fine Arts,
10th wk 8,300
•Star Wars (20th Fox). 16 screens.
2ndwk 129.800
The Villain (Coll. 5 screens. 4th wk 24.800
Wifemistress (Quartetl. Weslland, 8th wk. 6.800
SAN FRANCISCO
Alien (20th Fox). NorthPoint. !4thwk $15,251
The Amitvville Horror (All. 3 theatres.
5th wk 12.440
Bonjour Amour (Atlanticl. Cento Cedar.
Istwk 3.191
Breaking Away l20th Foxl, Alexandria
6th wk 9.513
The Concorde— Airport '79 lUnivl. Ghirardelli.
4th wk 3.323
A Force of One (American C memal. 4 theatres.
Istwk 54.956
Hot Stuff (Coll. Cinema 21. 2nd wk 5.433
La Cage Aux Folles lUAl. 4 Star. 7th wk. .
. 20.582
Love on the Run iNew Worldl. Clay.
4th wk 6,334
Manhattan (UAI. Vogue. 1 Ith wk 5.375
Moonraker (UAI. Serra. 9th wk 3.420
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whose president is Larry Moyer, Tom's
brother Other defendants in the $5 million
suit are Warner Bros Distribution Corp., 20th
Century-Fox Film Corp.. Paramount Pictures
Corp., Universal Film Exchange Inc., Metro
Goldwyn Mayer Inc., American International
Pictures, the Motion Picture Association of
America, the Eastgate Theatres Inc., Broad
way Cinema Inc., General American Theatres
Inc. and Orewash Theatres Inc.
The suit alleges that the defendants have
illegally restrained trade by conspiring since
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exhibit certain (mostly first-run) films and to
discourage and prevent new film production
and distribution businesses in Oregon and
Washington
More American Graffiti lUnivl, Coronet,
4th wk 3,810
The Muppet Movie IAFDI, 3 theatres.
4th wk. 23,122
North Dallas Forty (Para). Regency II.
4th wk 14.784
Rich Kids (UAI. Regency I, 2nd wk 7.672
Saint Jack (New Worldl, Bridge. 5th wk. . 6,693
The Seduction of Joe Tvnan (Univl, Royal,
Istwk 22,197
•Star Wars (20th Foxl. 3 theatres. 2nd wk. 17,917
The Villain ICol). 3 theatres. 2nd wk 8.992
The Wanderers (WBl. Metro I. 3rd wk. 12.794
Wifemistress (Quartet!, Stage Door. 23rd wk 3,872
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Americathon (U A). 5 screens. 3rd wk 1 1.800
The Amitvville Horror (AD, 5 screens,
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Breaking Away (20th Foxl. 2 screens.
4th wk 16.400
The Concorde— Airport '79 lUnivl, 3 screens.
4th wk 9,100
Dracula (Univ), Colorado 4, 7th wk 2,700
Hot Stuff ICol). 7 screens. 2nd wk 42.500
The In-Laws (WBl. 3 screens. 1 1th wk 16.700
The Main Event (WBl. 2 screens. lOthwk. .8.500
Moonraker (UA), Continental. 9th wk 14.500
More American Graffiti (Univ). 4 screens,
4th wk 10,800
North Dallas Forty (Para). 5 screens.
4th wk 35.300
Rockv II (UA), University Hills I & 2.
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The Seduction of Joe Tvnan (Univ), 4 screens,
2ndwk 29,300
•Star Wars (20th Fox), 9 screens.
2nd wk 55.400
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PHILADELPHIA
Jot Baltake, Philadelphia Daily News, finds
"Unidenlified H>ing Oddball" lo be "a mad
cap corned), with ihe accent on visual and
physical comedies with merry results." Al
Haas. Philadelphia Inquirer, complains lhat
ihe film's "entertaining moments are occasional
interludes in an often plodding script."
Matt Damsker. Philadelphia Bulletin, declares
it to be "a charmer in the best tradition of
Walt Disney Productions."
Free admission with one paid admission on
Mondays through Thursdays until the end of
October is being offered at Movie City 5. good
for any of the five theatres in the Rt. 1 8 Shop
ping Center in Last Brunswick, N.J.
William Wolf, Asbury Park IN.J.I Press,
finds "The Concorde— Airport 79" as being
"so absurd" that he asks: "Was this flight
necessary"
After testing the new sound system for incar
use at its 6 1st Street Drive-In Theatre.
Willard Matthews, vice president of Budco
Theatres here, reports lhat six of the chain's
21 drive-ins have been converted to use the car
radio instead of speakers that hang on the car
window.
Richard Slovak, Atlantic City (N.J.I Press,
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says "More American Graffiti" is only "intermittently
successlul there's much
to like, there's not unity and little sense of
fun Sharon ' Johnson. The Patriot. Har
nsburg. Pa., says it "desperately needs an in
lelligent screenplay and well rounded, likeable
characters." Dale Schneck. Call-Chronicle.
Allentown, Pa., says that "the biggest reason
for the failures and weaknesses lies with the
rigid structure of the film chosen to give equal
time to each of the lour stories."
Linda Goldcnbcrg, regional promotion and
publicity director at Columbia Pictures here,
staged an invitational preview for a special
showing of "Hot Stuff al the Top of the Fox
Screening Room.
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer, says
lhat "The Frisco Kid" is "consistently unfunny"
and "the attempt is painful." Ernest
Seiner. Philadelphia Bulletin, says that
although Gene Wilder is "a gifted man. the
>um result of his performance produces little
more thai monotony ." However. Michael L.
McQuown. Philadelphia Tribune, says. "If
you want a good laugh, a good cry. a lot of action,
go see this one."
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All the General Cinema Corporation's
theatres in the Philadelphia Southern New
Jersey area— 1 locations in all—are featuring
the area premiere of The Little Rascals
Festival and The Three Stooges Festival at
Friday and Saturday night midnight shows.
Bill Wine, Courier Post. Camden. N.J..
calls "Sunburn" a "sundrenched bore."
Sharon Johnson. The Palnot. Harnsburg. Pa .
sees it as "a silly but pleasant diversion."
Lawrence Toppman, Atlantic City IN. J.
Press, views "North Dallas Forty" as an "odd
combination of brutality and beauty."
The Troeadero Theatre in ihe midiown sec
tor at 10th and Arch streets, where the city's
Chinatown begins, was reopened this week
after extensive restoration and renovations to
give Philadelphia for the first lime a playhouse
featuring Chinese motion pictures. The
82-year-old Victorian style theatre, which had
been a famous burlesque theatre for many
decades, added X rated movies to its stage
shows in recent years. After its closing on
March 3 1. 1 978, the theatre was purchased by
Stephen Pang, a Chinese-American
restaurateur.
Pang purchased the historic playhouse for
$75,000 and spent $90,000 in renovations in
addition to grants from the federal government
and the stale Office of Hisloric Preservation.
The traditional Chinese lion dance, along
with the Chinatown Drum and Bugle Corps,
ushered in ihe roaring grand opening of the
Troeadero as the Chinese community's
cultural arts center In addition to movies.
Pang plans to bring in a variety of Chinese attractions
and entertainment.
The opening screen attraction is a double
feature of "Snake From the Eagle Shadow." a
comedy, and "Green. Green Valley," a love
story. For the invitational opening day. a
Chinese folk dancing group, a Chinese acrobat
and a Kung Fu demonstration were siage offerings,
and guests were treated to a Chinese
buffet served in the lobby. The Troeadero.
with a 600-seating capacity, will operate daily
continuously from I l a.m. to 1 1 p.m. The boxoffice
will take a $3.50 admission.
While offering no comment on the circumstances
behind the closing or ihe future of
the theatre building. William Milgram. presi
dent of Milgram Theatres, independent chain
based in Philadelphia, confirmed the closing of
the 1.300-seat Coronet Theatre in Audubon.
N.J.. on Labor Day iSept. 31. "Beyond the
Poseidon Adventure" was the final film show
for the city's last remaining motion picture
theatre, which was built a half century ago
and featured vaudeville acts and rock bands
on its stage in earlier years in conjunction with
film shows.
Chester Delikate. house manager for ihe
pasi nine years, expressed surprise at its closing
The death knell for the theatre was almost
sounded in July when the Exxon Corp. ap
peared before the zoning board for permission
lo build a gasoline station on the site.
However, the zoning board rejected the proposal,
saying the facilities were in violation of
the city's master plan.
Audubon's only movie iheatre to survive
the competition of ihe shopping mall theatres
and the first run houses was originally built as
a vaudeville house in the 1920s. The vast
structure boasts a large stage, orchestra pit,
organ loft, dressing rooms, balcony and lobby
and was known as the Century Theatre.
When finances ran out, it reopened as the Coronet
Theatre for the showing of silent motion
pictures But five years later the building was
expanded and such performers as Abbott and
Costello and Charles Laughton appeared on
stage.
Two other movie houses here have since
disappeared. The Highland Theatre is now a
Masonic lodge hall and the Opera House has
been converted into a shoe store The only re
maimng old time movie houses slill operating
in the area are the Westmont Theatre and
Harwah Theatre. Mount Ephraim. and ihe
Broadway Theatre, Pitman. The Ritz Theatre
in Oaklyn and the Crescent Theatre on the
Black Horse Pike have become pornography
theatres exclusively.
Following the denial by the Pennsylvania
State Superior Court of a petition by the
suburban 25lh Shopping Center in Palmer
Township to slay construction of twin motion
pictures there, excavation began last week for
the foundations for the movie houses. The
twin theatres had long been proposed for the
shopping center, and still before the Superior
Court is an appeal of Northampton County
Judge Michael V. Franciosa's finding May 9
lhat the shopping center owners. Jacob and
Asher Seip and Dominick Lockwood. were in
contempt of a ruling last February by ihe
court ordering construction to begin.
The owners of the shopping mall have also
sent an appeal of the enure dispute with
Easton Theatres Inc., a subsidiary of Budco
Quality Theatres Inc., Philadelphia based
theatre chain, to the Pennsylvania Stale
Supreme Court The twin theatres, which are
to be operated by the Budco chain, were to
have been built in 1972. but disagreements
arose over financing and design.
Franciosa gave the shopping center 180
days, beginning in May. to complete the pro
ject. James Hogan. attorney for the shopping
center, said "technically important" arrangements
involving financing had occupied
ihe owners since May.
Although eager developers are waiting for
the City Council to award cable television
franchises in October, indications are that
STV [subscription television) will steal cable's
thunder. Radio Broadcasting Company of
Philadelphia, which received rights lo operate
STV on Channel 57 here from the FCC in
1977. has started building a studio and tower
on a hill in the Manyuk section of the city. It
expects to be sending first run movies and
sports programming over the airwaves
sometime in Ihe first quaner of 1980.
Although the FCC approval is currently be
nig challenged in court, Leon Gross, chairman
of the company, said they decided to disregard
ihe court challenge and proceed with construction.
Gross said Channel 57 would reach
50 to 60 miles from the transmitter. The com
pany will install a decoder and a special antenna
lor each subscriber, bul renlal fees have not
been determined.
NEW YORK
Bernardo Bertolucei's new film, "Luna."
has been chosen to kick off the 17th annual
New York Film Festival Sept. 28-Oct. 14 at
Lincoln Center.
Twenty one films from nine countries, including
two retrospectives, have been confirmed
for the festival, according to Richard
Round, director of the festival and chairman
of the program committee. Rainer Werner
Fassbinder's latest. "The Marriage of Maria
Braun." will close the two week event Oct. 14
The opening and closing night film show
ings will be presented at Avery Fisher Hall.
All other programs are scheduled for Alice
Tully Hall. Ticket prices for opening and closing
night range from $5 to $10. Tickets for all
subsequent screenings range from $3 to $5.50.
Among the other films being featured in
this year's festival are Fassbinder's "In a Year
of 13 Moons": "A Short Memory." from
French director Eduardo De Gregorio;
"Without Anesthesia." directed by Andrzej
Wajda of Poland; an American independent
film, "Best Boy." directed by Ira Wohl; "The
Europeans." a Merchant Ivory Production
directed by James Ivory, and "The Vampyre."
a German language production from 20th
Century Fox. In addition, a major American
film. "The Black Stallion." directed by Caroll
Ballard and having Francis Ford Coppola as
executive producer, will have its world
premiere at the festival.
"Jean Renoir's Direction of Actors." a
27 minute short showing Renoir in the process
of coaching a young actrevs through a scene,
will be shown as a retrospective.
The program committee for the 1 7th annual
event includes Richard Corliss. Molly Haskell.
Tom Luddy. Charles Michener and Mary
Meerson.
The festival is made possible, in part,
through public funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
WASHINGTON
The Washington Star's traditionally strong
entertainment-cultural coverage has been
expanded to include maps to guide one to the
greater Washington area theatres and a listing
of 190 film choices, as of Aug. 24.
The Star's motion picture critic. Tom Dowlmg.
writing about Richard Pryor's look alike
sequel. "Richard Pryor Is Back Live in Concert."
which he says "couldn't be more than
five minutes of new material." had this to say
about Bill Sargent's "surefire profitable
sequel": "To say Pryor is funny barely scratches
the surface of his immense talent. He is
elemental to the same degree that Woody
Allen is cerebral and is every bit as significant
a social commentator of our time and place."
Dowling's review of "Till Marriage Do Us
Part." starring Laura Antonelh. consists of an
open letter to the star, which reads, in part:
"New al the Pedas Dupont Circle Theatre. I
guess it's supposed to be a comedy. I guess
some smart Italian with an eye for a buck
figured why not make a Laura Antonelli
movie with an extra dimension, a movie that
people can remember as starring you naked,
sullen and funny . it's an art movie ... I
I
get paid to come to these things .
know it's probably futile to ask. could you
possibly cut back your m-the-buff imports in
Washington I do after all. have appearances
to keep up."
Dan O'Bannon, who wrote "Alien." and
John Carpenter, whose directorial overreach
for "Halloween" also became celebrated, were
involved as writer and director, respectively,
with an earlier film, "Dark Star," a science fiction
satire. "Dark Star" premiered locally at
David Levy's Key Theatre in Georgetown and
College Park Aug. 29.
Charles T. Jordan, Warner Bros, branch
manager, invited exhibitors to a tradescreening
of "ABBA." at the Motion Picture
Association of America, on Aug. 29.
Warner's two area releases, out of the three
first runs, show considerable increase in
grosses, at specific situations, during the last
available week, Aug. 24. "The In Laws," 10th
week at the AMC Skyline, reached $5,358.
where its ninth week grosses had amounted to
$5,050. "The Mam Event," at the same complex,
had ninth week grosses of $3,178. up
from $3,047 for the previous week. The
grosses for "The Frisco Kid." al another AMC
complex. AMC Academy, dropped in its
fourth week to $4,650 from $4,946 for the
previous week.
The creator producer of the James Bond
films. Albert Broccoli, was here promoting his
12th Bond movie. "Moonraker." released by
United Artists, now playing in 10 area
theatres.
"Moonraker" cost $33 million to produce
this first movie. "Dr. No." made 1 8 years ago.
cost $1 million! and it must gross S80 million
"before a penny is made." according to Broc
coli. This is Broccoli's first domestic promo
tional tour: always before he did the foreign
PR tours, including Japan, which is his biggest
market.
Roger Moore is his favorite in the lead role
and "Moonraker" is his favorite Bond movie,
says Broccoli, who added that he could not
discuss Sean Connery proposing to produce
his own James Bond movie. "Warhead." with
-
Orson Welles, because "it's under litigation.

Coming October 22nd in Boxoffice

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16 BOXOFFICE/SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
spotlight on new england
By ALLEN M. WIDKM
Regional CorrespvnJenl
Cinema Center Corp.'s Holyokc (Mass!
Mall Cinemas 8. which opened earlier in the
summer, has adopted Friday/Saturdav late
shows, following the polio in effect for some
lime now at the Redstone Showcase Cinemas
8 in West Springfield. Mass The two com
plexes. only miles apart, are the largest in the
six slate New England region.
Immediate past Connecticut Association of
Theatre Owners president Bernie Menschell.
M ho helms the Menschell Theatres, has filed a
certificate of incorporation with the C'onnec
tieut Secretary of State's office for a new cor
poraiion. Pans Cine I and II Inc. The principal
business address is listed as 875 Main St..
Manchester 06040. which happens to be home
for Menschell Theatres.
Menschell is president of the new company,
his brother. Seymour, is treasurer, and his son.
Steven, is secretary. Brother and son are very
much active in Menschell Theatres, which
also includes Berlin Cines 2, Vernon Cines 2.
and Manchester and Pike drive ins. The Pans
complex, in a Wethersfield shopping center,
was previously operated by Esquire Theatres
of America Inc. of Boston.
Playing "Hot Stuff" at his Merrill's
Showcase 3. South Burlington. Vermont in
dependent exhibitor Merrill G. Jarvis caption
ed newspaper ads: "If you're sick and tired of
all those horror films and you're looking for a
lot of laughs .
is the film to see!"
I he Allen & Cooley Cinemas 2. Springfield.
Mass., showing 20th Fox's "The Rocky Hor
ror Picture Show" at 1 1 p.m., over a recent
Friday/Saturday offered "admission only $2"
to persons wearing "Rocky Horror" related
costumes.
Frank Piacente. who operates the Colonial
Theatre. 492 Farmington Ave.. Hartford lone
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aftermath of urban renewal and huge
developments in suburbial, has assigned two
man teams for security purposes during per
rbrmance nine The men wear what appear in
the darkened theatre to be shoulder holsters.
In reality, however, they are men's purses
called disco bags, and the only "weapons" the
men carry are flashlights. Significantly.
Piacente says that whatever minor problems
were evident with patrons previously have
winnowed down.
The Colonial was once a Warner Bros,
outlet, still later part of the Mike Alperin
holdings It was owned for many years by
Park St. Investment Co., headed b> industry
pioneer A M Schuman.
Paramount's "North Dallas Forty" got a
thumbs-down commentary by a reviewer iden
lified solely as "B.G T " in The Herald. New
Britain. Conn.: "The true picture of profes
sional football wasn't to be found in Brian's
Song.' and it isn't lurking in between the
satiric lines of 'North Dallas Forty,' either.
The shame is that the latter fumbled a real
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good shot at it
New house News Sen ice's Richard Freed
man was not impressed with "Hot Stuff." say
ing, "Starring and directed by Dom DeLuise,
'Hot Stuff is a one joke movie, and not a very
good one. It is really a half hour television sit
com stretched out to agonizing lengths ."
Colin McEnroe, Hartford Courant. said of
the same film: "DeLuise 's film directing debut
is roughly what anyone acquainted with him
would expect. Hot Stuff is a movie full of
slapstick, a few good one-liners and a lot of
bad acting."
Malcolm L. Johnson, same newspaper,
reviewing Universal'* "The Concorde—Air
port 79." said, "If there is to be another 'Air
port' sequel, it ought to take place entirely on
the ground, because the films that began with
the adaptation of Arthur Hailey's best seller in
1969 have long since lost any propulsion."
Michael Janusonis, Providence Journal
Bulletin Newspapers, in his review of Univer
sal's "More American Graffiti." said. "Defying
the laws of physics, more can be less, at least
in the case of 'More American Graffiti.'
The same critic liked Buena Vista's
"Unidentified Flying Oddball." saying. "Mark
Twain's story of a linker who gets konked on
the head and wakes up in olde England. 'A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,'
proves not only its serviceability, but its in
destruclibilily in the new Disney film.
Unidentified Flying Oddball.' "
Reviewing United Artists' "Apocalypse
Now." Bob Eimicke said in the New Haven
Register: "It comes as no surprise that
Apocalypse Now' does not measure up to the
hyperbole which has preceded its long awaited
release. A movie that consumed the vast im
agination of Francis Ford Coppola and his ar
my of dedicated collaborators for nearly five
years, cost some S30 million to produce and as
a work in progress, recently shared the Grand
Prize at Cannes, has built up such impossible
expectations in the public consciousness that it
was doomed to a limbo of respectful pans '
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PHILADELPHIA—The Fox Building in
the center city, which houses three first run
other theatres in this area outside of
Philadelphia, in eastern- Pennsylvania,
southern New Jersey and Delaware. Closing
down will be the Fox Theatre, the nexuloor
Milgram Theatre, and around the corner, the
Stage Door Cinema, which was created from
what used to be the Fox Theatre stage and
dressing rooms. The Fox Building also houses
the Top of the Fox Screening Room, an in
timate screening room leased independently
and used for private screenings by all the picture
companies.
The purchase price was not announced, but
it was reported to be $9 million, which would
make it the highest price per square foot ever
paid for a property in Philadelphia, according
to William Milgram David E. Milgram, the
Milgrams' father who then headed the chain,
purchased the 16 story Fox Building and the
theatre in August 1961 for $1.7 million.
The tentative plans by M.K.P., a subsidiary
of Oliver Tyrone Corp., a Pittsburgh, Pa„
developer of high-rise office buildings, call for
the new building to include a 2.500 seat
theatre triplex. Milgram Theatres will have
theatres, a preview screening room and the of
ficcs for most of the motion picture distnbu
the first right to operate the theatres. If terms
can be reached, Milgram Theatres expects to
Hon companies, will be lorn down to be replaced
take up its option and open the theatres in
by a 39 story office tower. Myron T. Kerr
Jr., M.K.P. Realty's executive vice president,
summer 1981 as first run houses.
The Fox Theatre will go dark next March
last week confirmed that the deal was signed after its Christmas run of "Star Trek—The
Aug. 29 with Milgram Theatres Inc., the Fox Motion Picture." The Stage Door will close
Building's owner and (hat settlement is to be
made in the early spring.
about the same time with "The Last Married
Couple in America." The last feature for the
The sale also closes down the last remaining Milgram Theatre has not been determined.
center-city theatres in the Milgram Theatres William Milgram had hoped to close the Fox
chain. The theatre chain, headed by William with the upcoming "Star Wars" sequel. "The
Milgram. president, and Henry Milgram, ex Empire Strikes Back." However, the settle
ecutive vice president, which has offices in the ment date may precede the film's release. Thai
Fox Building, will continue to operate 80 movie and Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining,"
which was scheduled to be shown at the Stage
Door, will be put up for rebidding and offered
to other exhibitor chains. The Fox Theatre's
fixtures will be turned over to the National Li
quidation Co.. to be sold at auction.
BUFFALO
"Get Out Your Handkerchiefs," which won
the 1979 Oscar for best foreign film, was
followed at the Evans Theatre with "La
Grand Bourgeoise." director Mauro
Bolognini's film about a turn-of the-century
Italian murder case.
first run report
BUFFALO
Americathon (U A). 2 screens, 2nd wk 8,300
The Amityville Horror (AD. 3 screens,
4th wk 20,000
Breaking Away (20th Fox). 2 screens.
2ndwk 13,000
The Concorde— Airport "79 (Univ), 2 screens,
2ndwk 6,700
The Frisco Kid (WB), 2 screens. 3rd wk 10,100
The In Laws (WB), 1 screen, I Oth wk 6,800
The Main Event (WBI, 1 screen. 9lh wk 5,000
Meatballs (Para). 1 screen, 6th wk 5,500
The Muppet Movie IAFD), 3 screens,
6th wk 16,000
More American Graffiti (Univ). 2 screens,
2ndwk 13.400
North Dallas Forty iParal. 2 screens,
3rdwk 16,700
Phantasm lAvcol. 1 screen. 3rd wk 3,990
Rockv II (UAI, 1 screen, 10th wk 3,500
Unidentified Flying Oddball IBV).
4 screens. 1st wk 14,100
NEW YORK
I he Amityville Horror lAli. 6 screens,
5lh wk". S225.636
Apocalypse Now illAl. Ziegleld. 3rd wk 166.930
La Cage Au\ hulks il Ai. ftSih Si Playhouse.
I6ih wk 36.442
I he Life of Brian (Coll. I screen. 2nd wk. .81.652
Meetings VV ith Remarkable Men (Libra). Cinema 3.
4th wk 22.020
More American Graffiti (Univl. 65 screens.
2ndwk {4da I 253.302
Orchestra Rehearsal screen.
iNew Yorker). I
2nd wit 24.829
Rich KidslUAI. I screen. 2nd wk 44.472
Rock) II ILJAI. 20 screens. 1 1th wk 270.033
Rust Never Sleeps llntcrnaiional Harmony).
8 screens. 1st wk 93.391
the Seduction ot Joe I vnan (Univl. 6 screens.
:nd »k 240.982
Soldier of Orange (TIPSl. I screen. 2nd wk. 22.985
Olin Film Delivery, which has been serving
exhibitors of Buffalo and western New York
for three generations, terminated the service
effective Sept. I. They attributed the move to
"runaway operating cost increases, together
with a diminishing base of steady customers"
Till Marriage Do Us Part iFranklinl. I screen.
6th wk 22.985
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (New Yorker).
I screen. I2ih wk 8.690
Why Not! ("Porquoi Pas") (New Line). I screen.
6th wk N/A
Woyireck (New Yorker). Isi wk.
( menu Studio I 14.767
Quad Cinema 3 10,739
DETROIT
Americathon lUAI. 8 screens. 2nd wk $70,000
The \mitvvilk Horror (All. 1 1 screens.
5th wk 75.000
Breaking Awav 1 20th Fox I. Americana 2.
4th wk 170.000
Hot Stuff IC 1 70.000
oil. 1 7 screens. 2nd wk
Meatballs IParal. 10 screens. 5ih wk 85.000
The Muppet Movie (AFDl. 14 screens.
4ih wk 190.000
North Dallas Fortv iLjAI. 10 screens.
4lh wk 90.000
CLEVELAND
Americathon (UAI. 6 screens. 1st wk S2O.022
The Amityville Horror (All. 13 screens.
2nd wk 146.263
Breaking Awav (20th Foxl. 5 screens. 1st wk. 26.554
The Concorde— Airport "79 (Univl. 5 screens.
2nd wk 20.911
Draeula I Univl. J screens. 4lh wk 14.264
I osi and Found IC oil. 5 screens. 1st wk 10.783
Manhattan IUA). 2 screens. I3lh wk 7.642
Meatballs (Para). 4 screens. 6lh wk 22 .223
More American Graffiti lUnivl. 5 screens.
Isi wk 42.699
The Muppet Movie IAFD). 5 screens.
3rd wk 61.441
North Dallas Forty (Paral. 6 screens. 3rd wk.25.559
Unidentified hiving Oddball iBVi. 5 screens.
lawk 10.783
file Villain (C oil. I screen. 3rd wk. 1 .430

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that has put the business in an unprofitable
condition.
New Rims opening Aug. 3 1 were "Beyond
the Door 2," "The Seduction of Joe Tynan"
and "The Legacy."
" 'More American Graffiti,' " said Bob
Groves in the Courier Express, "is too much
more of a good thing. This sequel, produced
by George Lucas, who directed the original,
bogs down into an almost unintelligible
hodgepodge."
Theatre Equipment and Supply Company
has assumed the operation of National
Theatre Service, effective Sept. I, under the
management of James Lovorato, a 25-year
employee of NTS. Lovorato said that Theatre
Equipment Service Co would be offering the
same line of product and service as NTS had
in the past. He will be operating at the same
office, 688 Main St., Buffalo. The phone
number remains |716| 854 1 736.
No one can say Bill Hebert is not a man on
the go In the past few weeks Hebert. booker
for Frontier Amusement Corp., has visited
Salt Lake City, New York. Boston. Toronto
and Batavia. contacting film distributors as
well as exhibitors.
"The dialogue rambles and frequently loses
the point, and there's no consistent dramatic
focus to tighten the nerves," said John Dwyer,
News film critic, reviewing "Love and
Bullets." "It is. however, a luxurious $8
million travelogue with marvelous Alpine settings,
chase sequences in the Rhine Valley,
derring-do on the funicular railway and lethal
hijinks back in Phoenix."
DETROIT
Greenwood Cine I and 2, Toledo, of the Jim
Bowie Corp.. has contracted with Clark
Theatre Service, Oak Park, Mich., to book
films.
"The Muppet Motie,"on its way to becom
ing a cult film, added a hardtop and two driveins.
CLEVELAND
Bill Anderhalt, branch manager of Fox.
reports that he is quite pleased with third timearound
saturation figures of "Star Wars," now
in this area. The movie will show for three
more weeks and will then be shelved for seven
years. The sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back,"
will be released nationally May 1980.
Fox October releases include "Avalanche
Express." which is Robert Shaw's last movie,
opening here Oct. 19. "Nosferatu—The Vampire"
is also on the books for October.
to attend are Frank Osborne, district manager
in this area for 20th-Fox, and Bruce Snyder,
divisional manager of Fox. Ben Barbosa.
~^""^—
regional film buyer to General Cinema in BALTIMORE
Detroit, also plans to attend the occasion.
here for the filming of "Those Lips, Those
Eyes." It seems as if they are comparing him
with Rudolph Valentino. At 38, Langella apparently
still has those sensuous lips and eyes.
Jackie Demaline of the Sun Papers writes of
"The Innocent," which is playing to tremen
dous audiences at the Cedar Theatre:
"Luchino Visconti's last film. The Innocent,'
is a rich indictment of society ... It is a stunn
ing, worthy farewell from Visconti "
Carl Remensky, Chronicle Telegram.
Elyna. Ohio, says "The Amityville Horror" is
no white knuckle shocker, but is suspenseful
enough to make one leery of going to sleep in a
dark bedroom."
Nancy Bigler Kersty, in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, writes that "Hot Stuff" is a
"cheerful enough comedy on the whole,
although the little homey scenes where the
task-force foursome gathers for an evening of
conviviality are too much like TV police
stories, and a party scene and a brawl at the
end get a bit tiresome.
COLUMBUS
Columbus Citizen Journal critics Gene Ger
rard and Ron Pataky made the following com
ments regarding current releases: "The Mup
pet Movie"—"Drop everything and run, don't
walk, to see this fabulously mounted confection
from the creators of TV's Muppet
'
Show
This may be the first film ever to truly bridge
the gap between generations."
"The Seduction of Joe Tynan"—"Alan
Alda comes of age both as a writer and actor
in this saga of a political wonder boy who is
politically and sexually seduced. Barbara Har
ris and Meryl Streep are absolutely brilliant as
the women in
his life."
"North Dallas Forty"— Nick Nolle and
Mac Davis make a winning team in a picture
that scores a touchdown on every play. Ted
kotcheffs probing film is the most perceptive,
realistic and revealing look at the seamy side
of pro football to date."
"The Frisco Kid "—"Gene Wilder, in his
finest performance to date, is funny and
loveable as a young rabbi chosen to journey
from Poland to San Francisco during the
1 850s."
"The Wanderers"— Director Philip Kauf
man envisions this remarkable film as a paean
to the end of an age of innocence, the early
1960s, when life seemed simpler and sex had a
forbidden tang. The picture captures the coming
of age of urban youths, chronicling the
painful and comic rites of passage into
adulthood with great style and imagination."
Bud Wilkinson of the Columbus Dispatch
called "Americathon" a "hilarious spoof ... a
combination of 'Laugh In.' Mel Brooks and
Woody Allen."
Francois Truffaut's "Love on the Run" is
currently on view with English subtitles at this
city's University Flick.
Variety Club Tent 6 is bustling with activity.
A general membership meeting is schedul
ed to discuss whether to continue the fund
raising telethon. Also to be discussed is the an
nual stag-golf-outing day at The Berkshire
Hills Country Club. Movie moguls planning
Event" and "Game of Death."
Linda Goldberg, regional publicity and pro
motion director fo Columbia Pictures, who is
based in Philadelphia, held a Cleveland screen
ing of "Hot Stuff" last week for critics. The
movie opened Friday at 1 1 theatres.
A critics screening of "The Wanderers" was
also held and was scheduled to open Aug. 31
according to Bruce Stern.
According to Mary Strassmeyer, columnist
for the Plain Dealer, Frank Langella is "The
Sheik of Cain Park." The groupies gather
around the entrance of Cain Park Theatre
each day, hoping to catch a glimpse of actor
Frank Langella, the star of "Dracula" who is
Holiday I & 2, North High I & 2. and East
Main drive-ins scheduled five dusk to dawn
shows to celebrate the Labor Day weekend.
Lead features were "Meatballs." "The Main
Memorial services were held in Palm Bay,
Fla., on Aug. 16 for William C. Cockey, a
retired drive-in theatre owner in the Baltimore
area. At the time of his retirement, he had
been the owner of the Westminster Drive-In
Theatre for several years.
Aug. 24 was an especially important day in
this city for it marked the opening day at
several theatres of Alan Alda's "The Seduction
of Joe Tynan," formerly "The Senator,"
which was partially filmed in Baltimore. The
picture was written by and stars Alda and the
critics here have much praise for his work.
R.H. Gardner, film critic for The Sun, wrote:-
"The result is a movie that, though spotty in
part, is on the whole good enough to command
one's attention throughout. Baltimore
can be proud." Mike Giuliano, of the News
American, said: "As a movie. The Seduction
of Joe Tynan' is an absorbing political and per
sonal drama; as a movie made in Baltimore, it
takes on added interest." "Joe Tynan" opened
at the Senator, Westview and Northpoint
Plaza
There was an all day preview Aug. 23 of
"The Hitter," also filmed in Baltimore, and
"Rocky II" at the New Theatre.
The Westview Theatres lost two hours of
show time Aug. 24 when a power breakdown
darkened the theatre's area. According to
George A. Brehm Sr., the owner,
pandemonium broke loose in the audience and
business complications resulted
Wayne Anderson, vice president of R/C
Theatres in the Maryland area, reports that
Nicol Sann, who was the manager of the
Dorset Theatre in Cambridge, Md., has been
transferred at her request to the Hollywood
Theatre in Arbutus, Md., her hometown. Sue
ceeding her at the Dorset as manager is
Eugene Tolley. This is a return engagement
for him to R/C Theatres after a leave of
absence of three years. Anderson reports, also,
that the new manager at the Village Theatre
in Reisterstown, Md., is Pat Smoot, formerly
the assistant manager at the Carrolltown
Cinemas in the R/C circuit.
JF Theatres has alligned itself with Global,
America's largest dining club, by offering din
ing for two priced for one at 20 restaurants. JF
on this deal is also offering two tickets for the
price of one at these cooperating houses: Jop
patowne Cinema, Northpoint Plaza,
Reisterstown Road, Plaza Theatre, Pikes,
Randallstown Theatre, Rotunda I & II and
Campus Hills. The Global Munu Club
membership is $25 annually and the club is
celebrating its 16th successful year
Baltimore.
Budco 'Sunburn'preview
more than just routine
PHILADELPHIA—The preview of
"Sun
burn" at Budco 's Regency Theatre had all the
fanfare attending a Hollywood premiere.
Radio station WFIL. the city's leading pop
music station, joined in as co-sponsor for the
event promoted by Donna Baum, who handles
the publicity and promotion for Paramount
Pictures in the area. Instead of being a routine
preview screening, it all added up to being a
colorful movie party.
The focal point in advance of the premiere
was the search for models who would
serve— in bathing suits—as hostesses for the
invitational preview staged the night before
the public opening. The search attracted
media attention in the Philadelphia Journal,
Philadelphia Daily News, the center-city
Welcomat, and on the KYW TV news programs.
The day before the premiere, the contest
among the models was held at the Regen
cy Theatre, where 50 selected models were
judged by a panel headed by Jerry Schlanger
of the Budco Theatres chain, joined by
popular local newspaper columnists.
The contest judging, for which four models
/"
were selected, was covered by the three major
television stations in addition to local
newspapers. The winning models were paid
for their appearance at the "Sunburn"
premiere and received other prizes from local
merchants, including clothing and record
albums, in addition to tickets to see the film
with a guest.
At the premiere, the winning models
greeted the guests at the VIP cocktail party
held on the theatre's mezzanine floor
preceding the screening. They were also stationed
in the lobby handing out cast and credit
sheets to the guests, as well as helping WFIL
personalities distribute door prizes to the full
house. WFIL. which promoted the model con
test and the special preview on the air. also
distributed tickets to listeners for the premiere
in a random drawing.
The VIP cocktail party also featured a
special "Sunburn" drink which Fleishman's
Distillers developed especially for the film.
Following the screening, a Fleishman
representative handed out souvenir pens to all
the guests.
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THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS
Every so often a film comes along ihal
seems lo be a celebration of life. Such a film is
Ermannu Olmi's "The Tree of the Wooden
Clogs " It represents a total experience
Olrni has created a masterpiece on him In
his leisurely directorial style, he takes us back
lo 1896 and chronicles peasant life in
Northern Italy during a nine-month period
Observation soon becomes participation in a
culture of almost 100 years ago.
As is usually his custom, he uses nonprofes
sional actors. I he roles are played bj peasants
and other people from the Bergamo countryside
The people are real and he captures
the rhythm of their lives
It's an episodic story that focuses on several
families and is exciting without being over
dramatic. The peasants, share-croppers, are
oppressed people, but they make the best of n
I'hcir life is austere and the landlord is strict
Miiiek (Omar Brignoli), the son of peasants,
arrives home from school »nli a broken clog in
"The Tree of Wooden Clogs."
and awesome Their livestock and
implements belong to the landlord—so does
the land and most of the harvest.
The story begins in autumn, with a widow
who must raise six children. She is a washer
woman. Her older children all work and help
out. Life is simple: there is a harvest; a pig is
slaughtered; families quarrel, children play in
the countryside; a religious least of the
Madonna of Si Augustine is planned
A baby is born, and the lather says, "one
more mouth lo feed " This lather later notices
THE BROOD
Writer-director David Cronenberg has concocted
a bizarre horror film that some viewers
will consider overly violent or in poor taste.
The picture will evoke screams from the audience,
and many will shut their eyes; it's a
weird story.
Oliver Reed is a kind of psychological
medical quack who operates the Somafree In
stitute. His methods are bizarre and he keeps
everything a dark secret. Part of his approach
is a variation of the primal therapy technique,
and some strange results occur. Some patients
come out with sores on their bodies or bulging
tumors. One man has a grotesque lymphosar
coma of the neck.
Samantha Eggar, who entered the institute
for psychological therapy, is kept in isolated
custody. It turns out thai she is breeding some
grotesque dwarf children who are deformed
and commit murder. The children kill both of
Eggar's parents and later kidnap her daughter.
Her husband. Art Hindle, finally saves the
day, but he must do it with the assistance of
perpetrator Reed.
The cast is quite good. Cronenberg was for
tunate to be able to assemble such a profes
sional cast. Eggar, who received an Oscar
nomination for the "Collector" in 1965, is par
ticularly effective.
that one of Ins sons goes barefooted, so late at
night he goes out and chops down a poplar
tree to make clogs for him. When the landlord
learns about this, the man and his family are
evicted.
In another sequence, a young couple are
married. For their honeymoon, they travel to
Milan to visit an aunt, a Mother Superior at a
A New Yorker films release, mi MPAA rating.
Italian Historical Drama w iih English subtitles, 1 85
mill., rum in release*
CAST
Baiivi
Luigi Ornaghi
Baiisiina
Francesca Moriggi
Miiiek
Omar Brignoh
Tuni
Antonio Ferrari
CREDITS
Production Company G.P.C. Gruppo
Produzione Cinema (Milan)
Franny (Trini Alvarado) are amused by a pet bird in his
divorced father's apartment in "Rich Kids."
RICH KIDS
Likewise, the script calls for Maxwell to yell
obscenities at even the mention of her first
BOXOFFICE RATING: EXCELLENT Unpretentious pictures that turn out exactly
the way they are supposed to are a rarity. Such
directed effort. There's no need to beat the
is the case with the George and Michael
convent. She welcomes them with joy and
point to death.
Hausman production of "Rich Kids." There is
fixes them a bedroom in the infirmary, tying
The plot of "Rich Kids" is a relatively simple
a warm and genuine feeling here of being able
together two single beds to make a double bed.
one. Jamie's parents are already divorced
to examine people very closely, as through a
The next morning she gives them a year-old
and his new friend Franny is well aware that
peephole. The relationships examined are
orphan to adopt and take home.
things are not peachy-keen at her house. She
presented in depth and with the proper mix
This is a personal film for Olmi. He was
knows that her father sleeps somewhere else at
lure of truth and tale. The audience knows
born in Bergamo and his parents were
night, but finds it easier to go along with the
that it's only a story, but the situations and the
peasants who later came to live in Milan. Olmi
acting are at limes so real that it's hard to
started working in films in 1953. His most
believe someone made all of this up.
famous were "II Posto" ("The Sound of
The
Trumpets"! 96 title, though adequate, does not do A United Artists release of a Lion's Gate film, rated
1 1 1 1 and "The Fiances" (1963).
justice to the story line involved. What PC Corned
really
-Drama, 97 min., now in release.
He also made "A Man Named John" in 1964.
Release #79186.
matters in "Rich Kids" is how the kids interact
The running time of 3 hours. 5 minutes and
with their parents and how they cope with the
Olmi's leisurely direction may distract some
CAST
shocking situation, namely divorce, that is
viewers. It will certainly take a patient and
Franny Philips
Trim Alvarado
thrust on them. The film somewhat resembles
intelligent viewer to fully appreciate the beauty
Jamie Harris
Jeremy Levy
George Roy Hill's "A Little Romance" in that
and the texture of this film. Olmi uses the
Madeline Philips
Kathryn Walker
it focuses on unusually bright children and
music of Bach lor a background score, and this
Paul Philips
John Lithgow
their view of the world. Yet "Romance" looks
fits in perfectly.
Ralph Harris
Terry Kiser
almost sickeningly sweet in comparison. "A
This film won the Grand Prize (Golden
SleveSloan
David Selby
Little Romance" was a great picture, but the
Palml at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. CREDITS
It
kids were almost too good lo be true.
should win the Academy Award for Best
Executive Producer
Robert Altman
As intended, the stars of "Rich Kids" are
Foreign Film, as it is one of the finest foreign
Producers
George Hausman.
the kids: Trim Alvarado as Franny and
films to arrive in this country in recent years.
Michael Hausman
Jeremy Levy as Jamie. Alvarado really shines,
It's a film lo study and see again, and as such,
Director
Robert M. Young
especially when she is dealing with her
it will become popular in university film series
Screenplay
Judith Rose
sophisticated and sometimes silly parents. In
and courses. James K. Loutzenhiwr.
BOXOFFICE RATING: EXCELLENT
these situations, Frannie's parents, played by
Kathryn Walker and John Lithgow. also are
at their best, demonstrating all of the normal
fears, frustrations and anxieties that two married,
charade because Daddy is there every morning
Cronenberg made another film in Canada a
soon to be-divorced people could expect
few years ago called "They Came From to have.
Within," which was a bizarre story about body Walker, as Frannie's perplexed but very accept the ups and downs of divorce, but not
snatching.
together mother, comes as close lo portraying completely. The children's continual alternation
Perhaps Cronenberg is making a statement reality as one could expect lo see in a picture.
between romantic games and harsh reality
on test tube babies. This phenomenon has Similarly. Lithgow properly alternates keeps them both going and growing. In the
between being uptight and warm in confronting
end, the two remain worldly wise, but manage
his less than adequate marriage and in lo retain their innocence.
A New World release, rated R. Horror Drama, 91
min.. now
demonstrating his tremendous love for his In addition to the mam actors,
in release. Aspect
"Rich Kids"
ratio, 1.85. Release
#191.
daughter.
features some fine performances by David
CAST
The notion thai two people as intelligent as Selby, as Frannie's mother's new beau; Irene
Frannie's parents would think that iheir Worth, as the up-to-date grandmother; and
Dr. Raglan
Oliver Reed daughter could be tricked into believing that Paul Dooley, as Jamie's mother's second hus
Nolo Can'eth
Samantha Eggar everything is okay may be hard to accept, bill band. Again, with the exception of Jamie's
Frank Carveth
Art Hindle
parents, none of the characters become
ii seems real. Frannie's reaction to the news ol
Juliana
Nuala Fitzgerald divorce, in which she invites her parents to a caricatures. Each is real, believable and richly
Candice Carveth
Cindy Hinds least-favorite dining spol ol hear the alarming defined as a vnal participant in ihe goings-on.
Barton Kelly
Henry Beckman news, is the charmer of the picture. Why can't The audiences for "Rich Kids" will probably
even kid be sii smart
be similar to those of "A Little Romance."
CREDITS
Jeremy levy .
as Frannie's friend Jamie, and Patrons in search of a good, clean and
his divorced parents. Terry Kiser and Roberta intelligent "little picture" will get their
Executive Producers
Pierre David.
Maxwell, are passably realisiic as a group, but money's worth in "Rich Kids." It is hoped that
Victor Solnicki
seem only mediocre when compared with the audiences for "Kids" will be broader than this.
Producer
Claude Heroux
performances of the other family.
however, because "Rich Kids" is so much
Director, Screenplay David Cronenberg
levy is a fine actor, but overshadowed in more than good and clean. It's a thoroughly
BOXOFFICE RATING: FAIR
this case by Alvarado Kisei ami Maxwell are engrossing film that not only shines with what
another subject entirely. Kiser. as Jamie's oil it is trying to say. but is full of impressive
aroused a great deal of controversy and heal, belated hippie playboy father, performs acting and crisp production techniques as well.
apprehension in many circles.
with so little zest that the role becomes "Rich Kids" is also a bright light for Robert
This film is not for the squeamish. It will nothing more than a hippie caricature. And Altman. who after some questionable efforts
require
audiences.—
exploitation to attract Kiser's apartment looks like a bad dream out
Director-Screenplay'-Cinematographer
Editor
Ermanno Olmi
Music , . . . Johann Sebastian Bach
of Penthouse, exaggerated to the hilt.
husband's name. These two stereotypes really
stick out in an otherwise superbly acted and
to greet her.
Together with Jamie, Frannie learns to
lately, can take pride in serving as executive
producer of this pleasant film.—S/u Goldstein.

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600 Madison Ah-.
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212)759-5700
Now in Release
June
Gas Pump Girls, Sen C. 90 min
Incoming Freshmen, Sex C. 84 mm
American Nitro, Ac, 75 mm
Cheerleaders' Beach Part>, 85 nun iRi
YunvYum Girts, 9j min iRcreleascl
Coming Releases
November
I lu- Magician 105 min., Marring Man
\ , i . i .. hei \ .iii :
GoinK Steady, I
December
M 90 min
( luvrli.ulirs ( ontest, SCX
January
Pi i
» VJ nun.
Shi Ik w inters
Ihe Swap, I), 86 nun. starring Roberi Dc Niro. Jennifer
\\.iii
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CARIBBEAN FILMS WEST
6315 n..h»vt, .,i Bhd.
Hollywood, Calif. 90028
Now in Release
July
Ihe It otic Adventures ot ( and>.
t and\ Goes 10 Hidhwood.
Coming Releases
November
I .mi. is* World.
December
I ropk of Desire.
CINESHOWCASE
2211 Broadvvav. Sir-. SE
Ne» York. N.Y. I1M124
12 1 21 5K0 7662
Now in Release
June
Jar-ti
Ike Ripper, Sus D
COLUMBIA
711 Fifth An-.
New York. N.V. 10022
(212)7514400
Now m Release
June
NfeMwing, My Ho 180001). 106 mm. starring Stephen
Machi. Nick Mancuso. Da\id Warner. Kathryn Harrokl
July
Lost and Found, CD (790191. I 16 mm. starring George
Segal. Glenda Jackson. Maureen Staplcion.
Just Vou and Me. Kid, C (80003). 93 min.. starring George
Burns. Brooke Shields
Game of Death, Ac. 102 mm., starring Bruce Lee. Gig
Young.
The Villain. C W (80004). 93 min . starring Kirk Douglas.
Ann-Margret. Arnold Schwarzenegger
August
Hot Stuff. L 1800071, 103 mm. siarnng Dnm DeLuise.
Suzanne Pleshetie, Jerry Reed. Louis Avalof. Ossie Davis
Coming Releases
October
... \nd Justice lor Ml, ID. starring M Pacino. Jack
Warden. Lee Slrasberg, John Forsythc
November
Kramer »s. Kramer, CD. starring Dusim Hoffman Meryl
Sireep Jane Alexander. Howard Dull
December
I lu- Electrk Horseman, ( D. starring Robert Redlord.
Jane Fonda. Willie Nelson. Valerie Perrinc.
COMPASS INTERNATIONAL
9229 Sunset Bhd., SlC. 818
Los Angeles, t alii. 90069
(2I.3)27.V9|>5
Now in Release
July
Nocturna, Ho CM 83 min siarnng Yvonne IX- Carlo.
John Carradine. Nai Bond.
August
tourist Trap. Ho D. 85 min ,
Jocelyn Jon< s
Chuck l onnors
Fvre, D. S7 min.. siarnng Lynn Hue I. Allen Goorv.il/,
Assault on Precinct 13, Cr-D, 91 min., siarnng Austin
Stoker. Darwin Jostcn. Luunc Zimmer, Martin West iRc
release!
Coming Releases
October
Roller Boogie, siarnng Linda Blair
Halloween, Ho-Sus, 93 mm. starring Donald Pleascnce.
Jamie Lee t urns iRc -release I
CROWN INTERNATIONAL
292 S. La Geaega Blvd., Ste. .1116
Biurl> Hills. Calif. 90211
(2U> 657-6700
Now in Release
July
V an Nuvs Bhd.. Ac< . 93 min., siarnng Bill Adlcr. Cynthia
Wood. Melissa Prophet. David Hayward. Dennis Bowen.
Dana Ciladslone
Terror. Ho. 8ri mm . starring Caroline Courage. John
Nolan. Sarah Keller.
August
19
Satan's Slate, siarnng Michael I iough Martin Potter < an
dace (iicmk-jiiiing.
Coming Releases
October
Sextette,
i M 9] min siarring Mae Wesi
Stai < icorgi Hamilton
l
torn DeLui R ii
Mice (
*
imix'i
l lit P Pom Girls llie Van Malibu Beat h,t it ot a
lease i
'Dracula's DoK/Cratei I -»k* Monsler/Laod -( ilu
Minotaur, Ho I
K ombination Re relcavcl
DIMENSION
9000 Sunset Bbd.
I l Rikoii
Streams of a Winter Niuht, Ho. 92 mm., starring Gil
Glasgow. Patrick B>ers. Roberi Bradley. Mar> Cox
September
Nick Carter in Prague, Ad. 98 mm., starring Josef Lep
vmia. Olga Schoberovo
Coming Releases
October
Sione Cold Dead, D. 90 mm. starring Richard Crcnna.
Paul Wilhams. Linda Sorenson. Belinda Montgomery
EMC FILMS
1125 N.t. 125 Si.
Miami, F la. 33161
(3051 8955511
Now in Release
June
The Silent Partner, Ac D. 103 mm., starring EJhot Gould.
Christopher Plummer. Susannah York. Celine Lome*.
Black Cobra, Sex D. starring Laura Gemscr. Jack Palanec
Contention Girls, Melo. 97 mm., starring Nancy Lawson.
Anne Seward (Re release!
Naked Rider, Ac. 96 mm (Re release)
Ihe Melon Affair, Sex C .
July
Love Clinic, Sex C
FILM VENTURES
310 N. San \ icente Bhd., Ste. 200
Los Angeles, Calif. 90U4X
(213)659 0545
Now in Release
July
103 mm (Re release)
H.G. Wells' Ilu Shapt "i Filings to Come, SI \d.90min..
siarnng Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barrj Morse.
August
Hometown t ,s.\., ( . 90 min.. siarnng Gar> Springer.
David Wilson. Brian Kerwin. Pal Delaney. Julie Parsons
September
Cauldron of Death, Ho U
*Be>ond the Dour II. Ho D. 90 mm., starring Dana
Nocolodi. John Steiner.
iRc release!
"Ihe Dark, SF Ho. 92 min., starring William Devane.
Cathj Lee c rosb) iRc release!
Coming Releases
October
( ardiac Arrest, Sus. 90 min.. starring Mav ( iail
Surwval Run, Ac, W min., starring Peier Graves. Ray
Milland. Vance Van Patten.
January
Jack London's Klondike Fever, Ad D. starring Rod Steiger,
Angie Dickinson. Lome < ireene. Jeff East.
FIRST INTERNATIONAL
7.17 N. Sv»ard Si.. Sle. 5
Hollywood, Calif, iimzx
t2l.V464Ji.t38
Now in Release
June
li. .. nl.i Sucks, Sex HoC D. y8 min. starring Jamie Gillis.
Anncie Haven.
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H2U Slltier
Bld|i.
Boston, Mass. 1121 16
(617)542 9633
Now m Release
August
Summerdoi;, D, 90 mm., starring James Congdon.
Elizabeth l.iscnman.
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gested); R— restricted, with persons under 17 not admitted unless at
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See Feature Chan lor story type key
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FEATURE CHART
(continued from page 1 9)
September
Legend of the Nurtrmest, l>, 83 mm
Coming Releases
October
The Adventures of Pinocchhi, An, °0 min.
The link Mermaid, An, 71 min
(toiriB Cacoaats, 93 nn'> starring Donn) Osmond Marie
Osmond
Dunderklumpen, An. M
GROUP 1
4200 "Mill Hl.d.
Los Angeles, ( atif. °0069
{21.1.550.8767
Now in Release
August
Paris— the (tonus Horror, SF, MX) mm . PclCi
Grave*. Kccnan Wynn. Dick Sargent, fim Donnell) i resl
Dales)
Sc\ and Violence, SF, 100 mm . Marring Maria Lanencr,
John Allen, Cynthia O'Neill. Susan Grey (Tesi Dates)
UFOs Are Real, Doc D. s>7 mm
Take All of Me, R D. 91 mm ,
Pamela Vincent, Maria Bel).
starring Richard Johnson,
Leonard John. iRcreleasel
I nine Nightmare, D. 90 mm., starring Alice Trent. Anne
Cuter, Jeff Linder. Gregg Short
September
Day of Fear, D, 98 min . starring C ynthta Moss. Amy Mar
tm.Gmny Gregson, Vince Albert (Test Dates)
Red Neck County, D, 92 min., starring Shelley Winters.
Leslie Uggams. Michael Christian. Dub Taylor
Coming Releases
November
Snapshot, Sus D. 90 mm .
Mason. David Michaels
starring Mary Evans. Anne
HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL
1044 s Hill st
Los Angrfcs, ( alif 40015
G 1 3) 749-2067
Now in Release
August
I Am Always Ready, 85 min., starring John Holmes. Joyce
Roth
Strange Feelings (Me Siento txtrana), 92 mm., starring
Ro&io Durcal. Barbara Rey.
Limits of Love (El Limite del Amor), 90 mm., starring Juan
Luis Gallardo. Charo Lopez.
Hotter Than Flames (FT Calor de la Llama), 90 mm . siarr
ing Antonio Fernanda.
Coming Releases
October
Sensual Fire, 91 mm., starring Dorothy LeMay. Jamie
G illts, Serena.
Ripening Cherries, 82 mm., starring Dorothy LeMay. Mary
Ryan. Misty
Champagne Orgy, 84 min., starring Bonnie Holiday. Susie
Taylor
November
Casanova II. 87 mm , starring John Holmes, Susan Silver
INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
5 Ha'ddon Ave.
Haddonfietd. N J. 08033
(609) 795-6000
Coming Releases
October
W hen the Screaming Stops. Ho F, 94 min.
High Heeb.C, 92 mm . starring Laura Antonelli. Jean Paul
Belmondo, Mia Farrow,
INDEPENDENT-INTERNATIONAL
223 Route Eighteen
East Brunswick, NJ. 08816
(201)249-8982
Now in Release
July
Dirty Book Store, Sex C 84 mm ,
starring Sharon Miller
Cinderella 2000, SF. 89 min.. stan-ing Catherine Erhardt.
(Re release)
The Boob Tube, Sex C. 82 mm., starring Joy Wilson iRe
re lease I
September
Teenage Models, Sex D. 90 min., starring Rae Sperling.
Coming Releases
October
The Boob Tube Strikes Again, Sex C, 86 min.. starring
Marian Osher.
In Search of Dracula, Sus, 88 mm., starring Christopher
Lee. (Re-release)
INTERNATIONAL HARMONY
630 Ninth A>e.
Nc» York, N.Y. I (HI 31.
(212)5824133
Now in Release
July
"J" Men Forever, ( . min stirring 1'im Procter
Kust Never Sleeps, M 1 1 m* min Neil
. Young
ID-I
September
( ocsfcK ( tnrboys, Sus 1) '.n min starring Jjl1 Patsnoe.
rom Sullivan, \ndj ss arttol
KEY INTERNATIONAL
SlIIHI I. (.irard Ah-.. Si.-, 412
Denver, Goto. 80231
(3031 755 766*
Now in Release
July
Ihree \V j\ Weekend. Vx ( SO min surring Dan Diego.
lod) Lee Olhava, Blake I'.unsii
I hi- Sweel ( r.t-k < >.ui.l> War. WD. 87 min.. starring
Richard Igan. Albert Salmi, Nila lalrx.l. Slim Pickens
Coming Releases
October
1 he Man W hu l.ini-d B.-ar\, Ac Doc. 90 min.. narrated by
Hcnr> I
,-[i,l.i
LONE STAR
6515 Sunset IIImI, si, 203
Hollywood, Calif. 9O02K
(2131463-3175
Now in Release
September
The Comeback, Sus Ho D, 100 mm, starring Jack Jones.
Pamela Stevenson. David Doyle
The Florida Connection, Ac D. 88 mm. starring Dan
Pastormi. June Wilkinson.
Coming Releases
October
Kill the Golden Goose, Ac D, 8° mm., starring Ed Parker.
Bong Soo Han
The Great Monkey Rip-OfT, C. 90 mm . starring Alan Hale.
I
Feel Lo*c, D. 90 mm., starring Matt Greene. Nona Jane
Lim, Steven Nicholson.
November
M) Boys Are Good Bo>s, CD, 94 mm., starring Ralph
Meeker. Ida Lupino, David Doyle.
Game that Lo>ers Play, 91 mm . starring Joanna Lumiev.
Jeremy Lloyd, Penn> Brahms.
MARTIN FILMS
405 Park A.e.
Nc» York, N.Y. 10019-
(2121 581-8011
Now in Release
July
She's 17 and Anxious, Sex D, 84 mm .starring Ann Kuster.
Nadja Tiller, Cal Vogler.
Reads, Willing & Able. Sex C, 83 mm., starring Ingrid
Steeger. Chris Shubert. Monica Rohde
High Rolling in a Hot Conene, Ad-C, 85 min., starring
Joseph Bottoms. Greg Taylor. Judy Davis.
MONARCH
8500 Wilshire Blvd. Ste. 506
Beverly Hills, Calif. 90211
(2131652 9900
Now in Release
June
Fmanuelle in America, Sex D. starring Laura Gemscr
Muleicathers, C, barring Dorr Knoits, Rory Calhoun
July
King of Kong Island, starring Brad Hams, Marc Lawrence
September
Degradation of Fmanuelle, starring Laura Gemser.
Coming Releases
October
Tough Guy (Perils of Pau Ling), starring Willie Chu. One
Hung Lo
NEW LINE
853 Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10003
(2121674 7460
Now in Release
June
Down & Dirty, C. lis mm., starring Nino Manfredi.
July
Wh) Not! (Porquoi Pas!*, CD. 41 nun. Marring Samy
Frey. Mario Gonzalez, Ohrtsunc Muniki
August
Ihi- I jsI Ronantk Lover. K ( . 92 mm, starring Daylt
Haddon
Coming Releases
October
Ukc a turtle on Its Back, ki> 95 min.. starring B
Lalbni
stj> as >nu fire, K l> Mm nun .
NEW WORLD
1 1600 san Vicente Bhd.
\iigeles. (alii. 90049
(213) 8204733
Now m Release
June
I p from the Depths, Hu Sus U95|, 95 nun .
Natassja Kinski
Sain
Bottoms, Susannc Reed. Virgil
Hu Brood, Ho (1911. Starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eg
gar. Arl HjihIIc
The kids \ri Alright, MM 106 mm . color and h&w.
starring I In- Who. Steve Martin, Ruigo Stan ll) 3SS|
July
Ihi' Lad) in Red, Cr I). 100 mm . starring Pamela Sue Mar
tin.
Rohert Conrad. Louise Fletcher.
Coming Releases
October
The Green Room, D. 94 mm .
Nathalie Bayc.
NEW YORKER
16 W.6lst SI.
Ne« York. N.Y. 10023
(2121 2474110
Now in Release
June
El Super. CD. 90 mm
Tlie Tree o( Wooden Clogs. Hi D. 185 mm
July
starring Francois Truffaut.
Peppermint Soda, CD, 97 mm
August
Woyzeck, D, 82 mm
'Orchestra Rehearsal. D. 72 mm
"The Making of Don Giovanni, Doc. 27 mm.
September
Against the Grain, D
Coming Releases
October
The Marriage of Maria Braun, D, 120 min.
November
Don Ciosanni, DM. 180 mm (DUl
January
The Chant of Jimmic Blacksmith, D. 122 min.
NMD
250 W. 57th SI.
New York, N.Y. 10019
(212)581*011
Now in Release
June
Smokes and the Hotwire Gang, Ac I). 85 min,. starring
Jamc-i Keach. Stanley Livingslon.
July
How to Score With Girls, Sex C, 82 mm , starring Ron
Osborne. Larry Jacobs
OMNI PICTURES
2675 Cumberland Parkwas. Sic. 190
Atlanta Ga. 30339
Coming Releases
October
W oilman. Ho. 1 1 nun ,
starring Earl Owensby. Kristma
Reynolds. Ed L. Grady, Sid Rancer. Maggie Lauterer.
Julian Morton. Helene Tryon.
ORANGEWOOD PROD.
1800 N. Highlands Sle. 401
Hollywood, Calif. 9002K
(2131464 7297
Now in Release
June
Tangerine, Sen Sus. 80 mm
July
Kralhouse, 82 min.
Desil's Garden.
September
Pink Champagne, Sex Sus.
PARAMOUNT
I (.nil A Western Pla/a
Ne* York, N.Y. 10023
(212)3334*47
Now in Release
June
Players, R At D (12301, 120 mm .
Dean I'aul
Martin.
starring All MacGraw,
Prophecy, Ho Sus |II82|. 102 mm. starring lalia Shin-
Roben Foxwofth. (D35S)
r scape rrum Alraln./, Sus Ad ll.'v>i, I 12 mm , UajTirlf
t Inn I aswood
Itkntdlini-. M\ Sus II I70l, 1 Id mm , Audrey Hep
bum, Ben (.ia/yjra. James Mason, ( laudia Mori
July
Meatballs, t 1 1 3241. 92 min starring BUI Murraj
August
North Dallas Forty, < I) |8773L 1 19 mm Starring Nick
Nolic, Mai Davis, BoSvcnaod < harks Duming
Sunburn, Sust |UI8|. 94 mm, starring I arrah Fawoctl
Majors. ( harlcs ( irodin. An ( amcy.
Coming Releases
October
Starling Oter |I239|. starring Bun Reynolds, Jill
( lay burgh, (andicc Bergen, Charles Duming. Austin
Pendleton, Mary Kay Place.
I reach Postcards 1 1 2351, starring Mane I ranee Ptacr.
December
Star Trek— the Motion Picture, SI Ad. starring William
Shatner, Ixonard Nimoy, l>c lorcsi Kcllcy. James Doohan.
Cicorge Takci. Nichollc Nichols
Nijinsk), starring Alan Bales, (ieorpc I>c la Peru. LcsIk*
Browne. (Selected Engagements!
QUARTET
60 E. 42 SI, Sle. 3301
Ne» York, N.Y. 10017
(2121867 97(10
Now in Release
July
Draeula and Son, Ho-C. 87 min.. starring Christopher Lee
Coming Releases
October
Rape of I mm
. D
November
A Simple Story.
December
Whs Shoot the Teacter
ROCHELLE
16300 W. Nine Mile Kd Sle. 1 10
SouthneM, Mich. 48075
0131 557 5024
Now in Release
July
Rock Feser. Cr D. 98 mm., starring Wade Nichols. Jeanic
Sanders.
A Sainl a Woman a DetiL 90 nun. starring Joanna
Fields. Pam Serpe.
Driller
Killer, Ho. 90 mm., starring Jimmic Lame, Carulyn
M.ii Bayhi Day.
,-
Coming Releases
December
The Distne Mr. J, CM. 8s nun. statnng Belle Midler.
SANRIO
1930 Century Park West. Sle. 402
Los Angeles, Calif. 90067
(21315524)525
Now in Release
August
Winds of Change, An M F, 82 mm narrated by Peter
Ustinov. (D-35SI
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September
Katharine Hepburn
Coming Releases
October
mini i nurd from page 2D
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1 hi- Gtacfcr Fox, Doc I). 9> nun .
(Re releasel
November
J. 84 mm . slurring
narrated b> Arthur Hill
Nutcracker Fantasy, Puppet An M. 81 mm, with voices b)
Michelle Lee, Melissa Gilbert. Lurene runic. Christopher
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TOPAR FILMS
31 SI. James \>c.. Mr. 902
Boston. Mass. 02116
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Now in Release
September
Ijsl ( nrnpam. Ac I) 90 mm. starring William Smilh.
t laudia Jennings. John Saxon
Coming Releases
October
Blue Kin, 'V D, 92 nun starring Hard* krugcr. Greg
Rowc
January
Supersonic Man.
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New Wk. N.Y. 1(1014
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Now in Release
September
the Bank- of C He—Pari III, Doc. 90 mm
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(2131 277-221
Now tn Release
June
Butch and Sundance: the tarl> Days, C-W-Ad 1053391. 1 1
mtn . starring Tom Berenger. William Katt.
August
Breaking Away, CD (053641. 100 mm., starring Dennis
C hrisiopher. Dennis Ouaid. Jackie Earle Hale> . Dan Stem.
Robyn Douglass. Hart Bochner.
Coming Releases
October
Luna. D. starring Jill Clavburgh. Matthew Barr>. Franco
Citti. Veronica La/ar
Valanche Express, Sus Ad. starring Lee Mar\in. Robert
Shaw. Linda Evans. Maximilian Schell. Horst Bucholz.
Mike Connors. Joe Namaih.
Nosferatu the * ampin, SF Ho 105343). 106 mm., starring
Klaus Kmski. Isabelle Adjani. Bruno Ganz. Jacques
Dufilho.
December
All That Ja/:/. DM. starring Ro> Scheider. Ben Vercen.
Ann Remking. iSclccted Engagements!
January
Health, C D. starring Glenda Jackson. Carol Burnett. James
Garner. Lauren Bacall. Paul Dooley. Donald Moffat.
Henry Gibson.
The Rose. DM. starring Belie Midler. Alan Bates. Frederick
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June
Moearakef, Sp> Ac (7s» 1 2*J». I2f> mm, starring Roger
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bmeCteo ID-35S, 70i
Rock> II. D I79137K
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August
\mericathon, C . mm, starring Peter Ricgcrt, Harvey
Korman. Fred Willard. ZaiK Bu/b>, Nancy Morgan. John
Ritler
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Marlon Brando. Robert Duvatl. Martin Sheen, Dennis Hop
per. Frederic Forrest. Alhen Hall Sam Bottoms. Larry
lishburnc
Rich Kids. C D. 97 mm., starring Trim Alvarado, Jeremy
Kalhryn Walker. John Lithgow. Terry Kiser, David
Sclby. Roberta Maxwell. Paul Dooley
Coming Releases
October
Head Our Heels, I), starring John Heard. Mary Beth
Hurt
The Hamster ul Happiness, R (. starring Robert Blake.
Barbara Harris
November
The Fish I hat Saved Pittsburgh, Ac C . starring Julius Irv
mg. Meadow lark Lemon. Flip Wilson. Jonathan Winters,
Margaret Avery, James Bond III. Stockard C harming
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(Reissue. D 355)
December
Cuba, Ad D, starring Sean Connery. Brooke Adams.
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June
Walk Proud, D i7906i.
Sarah Holcomb
July
102 mm., starring Robby Benson.
Draeula. Ho D 17914). 109 min.. starring Frank Langella.
Laurence Olivier. Donald Pleasenee ID 35Sl
August
More American Graffiti, CD 17913). Ill min.. starring
Paul Le Mat. Ron Howard. Cindy Williams. Candy Clark.
Charlie Martin Smith
The Concorde— Airport *79, Sus (7VI5i. 123 min.. starring
Alain Delon. Susan Blakeh. Robert Wagner. George ken
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Pol-D l79!6l.
107 min.. starr
ing Alan Alda. Meryl Strecp. Barbara Harris. Rip Torn.
Melvyn Douglas
September
Legacy, 179171, 100 nun. starring Katharine Ross. Sam
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National Lampoon's Animal House, C (78l7l. 109 min..
starring John Belushi. Tim Matheson. Donald Sutherland.
Johm Vernon (Re release)
Coming Releases
November
Running (7919). 103 mm,, starring Michael Douglas. Susan
Anspach
\anks (79181. 120 mm,, starring Richard Gere. Vanessa
Redgrave. William Devane
December
1941, C. starring John Belushi. Dan Aykroyd. Lorraine
Gary. Murray Hamilton
The Jerk, C . starring Steve Martin. Bernadetie Peters.
Coming Releases
October
i ounu Swingers, Sex * 80 mm
November
i MMf and W lid. V Sus 9Q mm
December
f manuelle in Hull* wood. Sex C
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June
Ihe In Laws. Ac-C 1798161. 103 mm . Pcler l-alk.
Alan Arktn. Nane> DuSSaUlt, Paul Lawrence Smith. Iran
Drescher
Ihe Main ExMt, I l> 1798061. 112 mm. starring liarbra
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July
Ihe Wanderers lOrioni. C D |79807|. 113 mm. starring
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The Frisco Kid, C W 1798051. 122 nun. starring Gene
Wilder. Harrison lord. Paul Lawrence Smilh. Val Bisoglio
September
The Life of Brian. C |79824|. 91 min.. starring Graham
Chapman. Terry Gilliam. John C leesc. lerry Jones, trie
Idle. Michael Palm ID35SI
Coming Releases
October
Jesus 1798081
The Great Santini lOrioni (798081. starring Robert Dusall.
Blythe Danner. Michael O'keele. Slan Shaw
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July
Invaders From Mars, SF. 82 mm . starring Helena Carter.
Arthur 1 ran/. Lclf Lnckson. Jimmy Hunt 'Reissuei
CnwIJng F>e,SF. 81 mm . starring Forrest 1 uckcr.
Janet Munroe. Jennifer Jayne iReissuc
Helter Skeller Murders, Ho. 81 mm bXw . siarrmg
Charles Manson. Debbie Dull. Garry Donovan (Reissue)
August
Hideous Sun Demon. 74 min . starring Robert Clarke. Nan
Petersen
(Reissue)
Kronos. Destroyer o( the I alrerse, SI b&w. starring Jell
Morrows, Barbara Lawrence. John l_mer> (Reissue!
WORLD NORTHAL
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New York. W 10017
(212)2238181
Now in Release
June
My Main Man From Sloni* Island. DM 91) mm .
starring
Richard Davis. Ldward Sioney Rohmson. George Fnglund. (
Gene Barge
July
Teresa Ihe Ihiel, ( D, III nun - Monica Villi.
Carlo Delle Diane. Siclano Sana I lores. Isa Danieli
The Master Killer, Ac D starring l.ui C hia Hut
August
Friday the 13th, starring Peggy Fcury
The Orphan, starring Joanna Miles, Stanley Church. Donn
Whylhc. Mark Owens
I Lore You Bruce Lee.
September
The 5 Deadly Poisons.
Go Mamma Go.
Coming Releases
October
No Time for Breakfast. D. 100 mm . starring Annie Girar
dot. Jean Pierre Cassel. Francois Perrier. Isahelle Huppert
(Re releasel
The American Game, Doc. 85 mm
November
The Mighty Peking Man.
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October
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November
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The Cannon Group presents
A Gabriette Beaumont Film
The Most Terrifying Story Since The Omen
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Starring
CYD HAtfMAN MALCOLM STODDARD ANGELA PLEASENCE PATRICK BARR
Novel by
Bernard Taylor
Associate Producer
Christopher Toyne
Menahem Golan • Yoram
Executive Producers:
Globus Dennis Friedland
Producer/Director:
Gabrielle Beaumont
Art Director
Tony Curds
Screenplay by
Olaf Pooley
Director of Photography
Norman Warwick
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